Recent content by Fred G Meyer

I appreciate your time here. Last question - if I activate the EnGenius AP's ability to filter traffic by MAC addresses and set it to filter the time server's MAC address - and it does actually filter that address, does that indicate that Windows' bridged connection is not stripping the MAC...

Again, thanks for your thoughts. Getting into the fate of MAC addresses as they pass across various nodes is well beyond my skillset, but are we certain that the MAC addresses are in fact being dropped as they pass through the PC's bridged connection? All of the devices on the network - whether...

I think I probably wasn't very clear in my previous posts. You are correct that the PC is an end user on the wireless network and not the AP. Primarily, it receives data from the back deck tablets via the AP and writes that information to a database. The EnGenius is the network's wireless AP...

Thanks for the comments. I'm not sure what a repeater would be repeating in our situation - the access point is what is used to create our wireless network and facilitate the communication among the wireless devices, so I'm pretty sure we need it. We use an access point because we are sending...

First, the caveat – I am a biologist and not an IT person; my coworkers and I developed this network with no adult supervision out of necessity due to lack of trained pros on staff. TL;DR – see diagram below; when primary computer shuts down, the on-deck wifi stuff can’t see the LAN stuff...