"Irony can be pretty ironic sometimes." Have you looked at less "consumer-level" solutions? Yes you will spend more money, but you may gain some features like sub netting that you don't get with the "consumer-level" hardware solutions. Sam. Loren H. Burlingame wrote: >I am setting up a 34 floor condominium with wireless access. I have >found that the Belkin Pre-N access points have a very excellent range >which means I will only need 1 per floor (this has been tested, I >could actually get away with 1 every other floor). The problem lies in >the fact that these devices are very consumer-level and are hard-wired >to only support a single /24 subnet per device while it's firewall is >enabled (which I need in order to block SMB ports from other wireless >users. No, there is no ability to do static routing and they will all >be hooked up in series via Ethernet). > >With a potential of 300+ users I am not comfortable with a single /24. > >The only other option is to basically treat every wireless device as a >NAT/firewall/router with it's own /24 dhcp pool. However, this would >mean that users on the last AP in the daisy-chain will have to go >through 35 NAT gateways before reaching the Internet. > >Does anybody see this as a problem? > > > -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.308 / Virus Database: 266.8.1 - Release Date: 3/23/2005