[TriLUG] Wireless Access Points/Routers

[David A. Cafaro]

Presently I am using a Netgear MR-314 wireless router.  I bought mine off 
of www.buy.com for 197.00 including shipping.  So far it has been 
great.  The new ROM flash has MAC filtering, plus I'm running it in 128WEP 
(I know it's got holes, but better than nothing, and this is 
residential).  I use it in a mix environment (Red hat Linux, WinXP(RC1 it 
was free), Win2K, Win95) and all work fine,  Dynamic DNS work fine, DHCP 
works fine, and all the configs are through a web page, which works with 
mozilla and netscape.  Some people have complained about through-put on it, 
but I haven't had any problems.  I downloaded the Mandrake ISO's and was 
getting 350KB/s (about 2.8 Mbit/s) via ftp download with a clean burn for 
all 3 ISO's.  And I haven't had to power cycle it unless the cable company 
screws something up (not the routers fault).  Well good luck.

David


At 04:10 AM 1/11/2002 -0500, you wrote:
>Ok.  I figured I would e-mail the list as I think I want to add either a 
>wireless access point or a wireless broadband router to my home 
>network.  I think TriLUG is probably best for this as I want something 
>dependable and able to handle a workload.  Some reviews I have read refer 
>to problems with large files and since I tend to work with ISOs then that 
>could be a problem.  I have a feeling my uses will mirror the general 
>TriLUG users :)
>
>What I am looking for:
>
>1.      Linux/Mac compatible (Usually if Linux compatible then it will 
>work with Macs too)
>2.      Reliable.  No regular power cycling required
>3.      Don't care about WEP, just MAC filtering as I will use ssh and ssl 
>probably
>4.      Available under $200 (WAP should be much less, wireless router 
>could go up to $200)
>
>This is all contingent on my new Apple Airport card coming for my 
>iBook.  (New System pull, but hopefully will work :)  I would also 
>consider sticking a PC Card in a PCI adapter in my Linux/OpenBSD box and 
>using it to route the iBook onto the net if I could do it for < $100.  I 
>only need about 50 feet access in an apartment right now.
>
>On a side note, the Airport card isn't completely new as I said above and 
>there have been some issues with Apple's software updating it to their 
>2.0/128-bit WEP version and frying the card (Small number of problems from 
>what I hear, but it is software upgradeable.  Basically an Orinocco as it 
>was outsourced).  Anyway, as I won't get the WAP till February, where 
>could I go to test out the Wireless capabilities?  Any publicly accessible 
>wireless networks?  I guess I could drive around and see if it picks up 
>anything :)  Any better suggestions?
>
>Thanks,
>Bill
>
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