[G4] wireless hub/router suggestions...?

[Howard Lew]

I know the info is out there in the "manuals" somewhere, but I made one 
attempt to access a Linksys Wireless-B in a PC household with my iBook 
with the first generation Airport card, but could not do it 
successfully....is it something about the password and using quotation 
marks or something...I saw some articles...but lost track of them...
...here's something I ran into...when I replaced my AirPort with an 
Airport Extreme Base station in my own house...(I have an extreme card 
in one laptop, and an regular card in another laptop...I'm not getting 
as strong a signal as before, and speed on the Extreme computer seems 
slower...I was flipping through a book yesterday, and saw something 
about setting up manually....so going to do that when I can afford some 
"downtime"....

On Feb 9, 2004, at 12:17 PM, Steve Goldstein wrote:

> I just bought and installed a Linksys Wireless-B (802.11b) that, with 
> rebates, came to $49.99.  For another $30, you can get the Wireless-G 
> model (802.11g with -b compatibility).  It was pretty easy to set up 
> (Web interface).  Except that the only subnet that it will use is 
> 192.168.1.x, whereas my old D-Link that failed all of a sudden used 
> 192.168.0.x.  That was fine for the DHCP assignments, but I had 
> hard-addressed my laser printer with the old subnet address, and I had 
> a devil of a time figuring out how to re-address it to work with the 
> new Linksys subnet...UNTIL (DUH!) I power-cycled the printer and then 
> re-assigned it a new fixed address.  (BTW, the Linksys has FOUR 10/100 
> Ethernet RJ-45 ports!)
>
> My wife has a Cube in the next room, and we use a first-generation 
> Airport card to connect.  She noticed immediately that she was getting 
> a much stronger signal with the Linksys than with the older D-Link, 
> and my experience with my Ti-Book also bears that out.
>
> So, for the money, I'd recommend it without hesitation.
>
> --Steve
>
> At 2:57 PM -0500 2/9/04, Snoke Jay S NPRI wrote:
>> what's everyone using for a wireless hub/router? I'd like 802.11g 
>> compatibility, ease of use, and the ability to shut out others who 
>> aren't paying my ISP bill...  and the Apple ABS is a bit too 
>> pricey...
>
>
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