http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-z35-and-wireless-questions-11678079 en Sat, 26 Mar 2022 03:45:55 EDT Sat, 26 Mar 2022 03:45:55 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-z35-and-wireless-questions-11695226 http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-z35-and-wireless-questions-11695226 Tue, 26 Oct 2004 18:14:18 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-z35-and-wireless-questions-11688295 http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-z35-and-wireless-questions-11688295 Mon, 25 Oct 2004 22:49:06 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-z35-and-wireless-questions-11688172 http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-z35-and-wireless-questions-11688172 Mon, 25 Oct 2004 22:35:48 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-z35-and-wireless-questions-11686571 said by reharlan:

Any suggestions on a secondary wireless AP?What do you want from an AP? I'm getting great wireless performance from Atheros and Broadcom radios. The Zyxel APs with Prism GT also work well and a few have biz class features. The CyberTAN (aka Linksys wrt54gs) loaded with Sveasoft beta firmware keeps getting better and better. I'm using it at client sites as a cheap and secure wireless bridge+AP with 4 Ethernet ports (WPA-PSK with AES+TKIP encryption). The Alchemy firmware series will be released to public soon and it will include serious features.

If you go zw35 add-in card be sure to swap DMZ and LAN as discussed. If you have a separate DHCP server then the added benefit of swapping DMZ/LAN is that your "LAN" DHCP server can deliver addresses to both "LAN" and "DMZ" using the DHCP relay feature. An upcoming zw35 release promises to add a separate wireless security zone in addition to a separate DHCP server for DMZ.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-z35-and-wireless-questions-11686571 Mon, 25 Oct 2004 19:49:49 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-z35-and-wireless-questions-11686387 http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-z35-and-wireless-questions-11686387 Mon, 25 Oct 2004 19:26:08 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-z35-and-wireless-questions-11680995
Cheaper still are the Linksys products, about which you read a lot of complaints, but to counter that you can load 3rd Party (free) firmware on them and most users DO seem happy with these other firmwares (more features, more output power, ...).

Personally I would stay away from the rest of the "really cheap" products because their quality is often in line with their pricing (low to very low). One noteworthy mention : USR have a wireless router called 8054, which most people are not very fond off (check the USR forum), but they also do an Access point called the 805450 and you see a lot less complaints about that one. It's main "claim to fame" is that it comes with 2 (diversity) 5db antenna's (compared to the standard 2db on most AP's) and higher output power.

I have used Linksys (WRT54G), Buffalo & the USR 805450 and have not had to many problems with either, but since I do not use peer-to-peer software (Kazaa, Bittorrent) nor do I have any PS/2's, X-boxes or pc's for on-line gaming, my experience may not be very relevant. Most issues seem to involve massive amounts of connections from 1 machine and since I do not have any such machines...]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-z35-and-wireless-questions-11680995 Mon, 25 Oct 2004 06:29:16 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-z35-and-wireless-questions-11680888 http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-z35-and-wireless-questions-11680888 Mon, 25 Oct 2004 05:40:54 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-z35-and-wireless-questions-11680773
In that case you may want to consider using a separate wireless access point rather than the pc-card upgrade for the Z-35. Not only does this allow you to put the AP on a DMZ port and then use the AP's built-in DHCP server to hand out addresses to your wireless client(s), but you will almost certainly get a much better range and so most likely better throughput from it as well.

The PC card solution for the Z35 is a nice feature in that it allows wireless functionality without extra clutter (no extra box, power supply, ethernet cable, ...) but it's range is very limited. It works well with wireless machines in the same room as the Z35 but beyond that signal quality drops like a stone.
In the US you can now get a Zyxel wifi pccard with an optional external antenna and this will most likely improve the situation. On the other hand the cost of that card + antenna is most likely going to be as high or higher than the cost of a separate AP...

Personally I would recommend the dedicated AP solution.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-z35-and-wireless-questions-11680773 Mon, 25 Oct 2004 04:12:17 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-z35-and-wireless-questions-11678880 http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-z35-and-wireless-questions-11678880 Sun, 24 Oct 2004 22:03:27 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-z35-and-wireless-questions-11678783
The bandwidth point was that 802.11g "real life" only manages around 14Mbps - so it's not as suited to bulk data transfer, such as backing up over the LAN, as a wired network connection.

As I said in my earlier post, the wireless LAN and LAN on a ZyWALL 35 are treated as one - both come under the LAN firewall rules. There's no application restrictions as such.

David]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-z35-and-wireless-questions-11678783 Sun, 24 Oct 2004 21:52:00 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-z35-and-wireless-questions-11678729 http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-z35-and-wireless-questions-11678729 Sun, 24 Oct 2004 21:45:55 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-z35-and-wireless-questions-11678402 http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-z35-and-wireless-questions-11678402 Sun, 24 Oct 2004 21:08:16 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-z35-and-wireless-questions-11678357
The only snag with using the DMZ for your LAN (apart from the obvious loss of the DMZ for use as a network segment distinct from the wired LAN) is that the current firmware only allows the ZyWALL to operate a DHCP server on the LAN. Unless you have a separate DHCP server, you must use static IP addresses on the DMZ.

If you use the DMZ for your LAN, and use the LAN only for wireless LAN, you may want to change the remote management rules, and you will probably want to adjust the default firewall rules.

David]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-z35-and-wireless-questions-11678357 Sun, 24 Oct 2004 21:04:21 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-z35-and-wireless-questions-11678303 (If you do buy an AP down the line, the G-3000 is a very nice one)

David, I believe down the line we will see some added flexibility with regard to wlan and dmz etc in response to feedback from users....... In any case a temp solution would be to attach PCs (statically to the DMZ) reverse the default rules in place such that public servers and/or public wifi on the LAN with DHCP serving. The private LAN (in the DMZ would be secure from the public side). Lots of ways to play!!
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I recommend you have at least one computer with a wired network card and a network cable to hand for configuring the router and upgrading firmware. As an alternative, you could use a serial cable to the ZyWALL's console port, as you can set up the wireless security settings via the menus - though I would recommend a wired network link, particularly for firmware upgrades.

There is no problem using the wireless LAN and the wired LAN ports simultaneously - though it's important to be aware that the wireless LAN and the LAN are bridged together. You can't have the wireless LAN connected to the DMZ, nor can you make traffic between the wireless LAN and the LAN go through the Z35's firewall.

To add 802.11g to a Z35 you need a ZyAIR G-110 card (if you can't get one of those, use a G-100 card, though this card doesn't have the ability to connect an external antenna). WPA will be supported when the 3.63 firmware is released, which should happen very soon.

David]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-z35-and-wireless-questions-11678229 Sun, 24 Oct 2004 20:48:28 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-z35-and-wireless-questions-11678189
As to which card in the Z35, I have only used a B-100. Suggest others here would be better suited in recommending a G-100/G-110 or perhaps other vendors cards
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