Design of WLAN Connectivity of Printers within an Office for an Office Environment with 30M Radius Coverage area using Linksys WRT 120N Wireless Gateway Router
1Nonum, Ernest Oyemndu & P .O. Otasowie2
1Department of Telecommunication Management, Novena University Ogume, Delta State
2Department of Electrical Electronics Engineering, University of Benin, Benin City, Edo State
E.mail: oyibow@yahoo.com; potasowie@uniben.edu
ABSTRACT
This work focuses on the design of printer connectivity via wireless LAN for the various departments of an office.A wireless Access Point mounted 10.5 meters from the entrance of a central office was used to create a network that interconnected all the printers and computers within the coverage area of 30 meters as long as they are configured for the network. The network was furnished with security features such as disabled SSID broadcast, passphrase, MAC address filtering and WPA2 encryption to prevent unauthorized users from getting access to the network. The performance of the design was verified through an extensive range of tests (i.e. printing of documents from different locations within the network coverage area of 30 meters), and this yielded accurate and expected results.This design makes it possible to avoid the problems associated with the traditional wired method of networking computers and printing of documents between the units of an office.
Key words: WiFi, Local Area Network (LAN), integrated service router (ISR), Wireless Access Point (AP), Radio Frequency signal, Printers
