Wireless Help (Not your typical Linksys thread)

[KarFai]

My fraternity needs to upgrade it's wireless network. Unfortunately we cannot run cable due to disagreements with our management company that manages are house (Don't ask...)

Anyway, we currently have 2 el cheap linksys system 11b routers, and we are expecting 40 clients on this network, we had 18 last year, and it had problems then.

I'm thinking of buying 2 Cisco Aironet 1100 AP's and deploying them to replace our 2 consumer grade piles of crap.

What I need to know is this. I'm semi familar with cisco IOS, but I want to do MAC address filtering and WPA, I presume this points can do that. Also I want to get a pretty good router, preferablly Cisco since once we remove our old AP/Routers, we'll need one. Can anyone recommend one. I'm working on my CCNA right now, so I don't mind having to configure IOS and stuff, I just need to get the order out for the equipment soon.

Any other suggestions to help upgrade this network is extremely helpful.

Thanks

 

[MiXdNuTs]

The routers seem fine. However, will all of your clients have 11g cards with support for WPA_PSK?

 

[PHUNBALL]

The Aironet 1000 series support WPA, WPA2, 802.11 a/b/g, MAC filtering, etc., basically everything you need and then some. As far as a router goes what about using a PIX 501 instead? If you have DSL, Cable, T1 or similar where the ISP provides the modem and/or router then a firewall would be a much better solution.