[wplug] Performance impact of using a Linux box as a wireless access point?

Zachary Uram netrek at gmail.com
Fri Apr 18 15:47:53 EDT 2014


http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/debian-ubuntu-linux-setting-wireless-access-point/


On Fri, Apr 18, 2014 at 2:48 PM, Pat Barron <pat at lectroid.com> wrote:

> So, it is generally possible to put a wireless LAN interface on a Linux
> box into "access point" mode, where the box will basically function as a
> wireless access point.  Does doing this have any significant performance
> implications?  Does the answer to this question change significantly
> where the wireless interface is a PCI card in a desktop PC, vs. a Mini
> PCI card in a laptop, vs. a USB wireless interface (on a laptop, or a
> desktop PC)?
>
> I'm thinking about building a sort of "IT Infrastructure In A Box", to
> have a machine I can bring to places (that don't necessarily have
> Internet connectivity, or maybe even no network at all), to use for
> demos, hands-on workshops and labs, etc.  In my vision of the world,
> this box would serve as the wireless access point for a "demo network",
> within this isolated network would provide DHCP, DNS, maybe some kind of
> NAT routing if there's really an Internet connection wherever I'm using
> it, etc.  As well as hosting whatever software I'm using for the
> workshop or demo.  I know I could just bring a separate Linksys router
> or something that's configured to be the wireless access point and do
> DHCP, but having to drag around yet another piece of hardware would be
> sort of a bummer.  I'm just wondering if using the box as a wireless
> access point would introduce such a significant performance penalty that
> it would affect the ability to use it for anything else.
>
> --Pat.
>
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