Recent content by fwei

What do you mean by "locked" format?

Yea. It is a "wireless bridge." Many various names, but they all do the same thing. It's one of the reasons dd-wrt, tomato, openwrt, etc. are very popular. I've got 3 wireless bridges in my network. 1 in a different neighbor's house. We all share internet.

Yea. Try the far apart channels (1,11). I think dd-wrt does 50? wireless clients at the same time? So you shouldn't be maxing it out.

Hate to go so far off topic, but has anybody here acutally loaded up a linksys router with dd-wrt to 200+ clients? Is it usable? I've never gotten past 30.

Yea. It sucks living in small rural areas. There isn't much choice. Satellite is horrible, and if there is 3G then it is equally bad. Have you tried asking for the prices on dry loop dsl? (if you don't want the phone line) I got rid of my phone and is on dry loop.

I've heard the linksys wrt600 series and a dlink gaming series are good. Dual band, and apparently very stable. I'm also pretty sure that those will get full N certification once it's finalized.

Yep that would work. btw, shouldn't the Actionteck be assigning ips in the 192.168.1.1** range? Most routers I've messed with start at the 100s.

There is your problem. They must be on the same network (not sure of the exact term here). 192.168.2.* won't easily communicate to 192.168.1.* So set them to the same thing. Like, 192.168.1.1, 192.168.1.2, 192.168.1.3 and shut off the DHCP on the wrt54g or the actiontec. You can also set...

So are all the routers on the same network (subnet) ?

Can you telnet in? I'm guessing it doesn't even get to the point of asking for userid:Pass? so your network is: Actionec--->wrt54g v8.2(dhcp disabled)--WDS-->wrt54g-tm ? If it is, I would switch the wrt54g v8.2 and the TM one. The TM has more memory so it more capable as a router, while...

Here is the name of the actual switch: D-Link DES-1105 5-Port 10/100 Ethernet Switch The buffalo routers are rated very very high, but I've only found them to be more expensive than other routers. Being the cheap bastard I am, I always go for the cheaper alternative.

Isn't there a way to set a password on the printer? (I'm not familiar with your situation, so this is a total guess)

I fully understand why they would implement/need such a feature, but I never thought it would be cost effective or even widespread. Do you know much about this? I'm curious as to how it works exactly. What about wireless networks that are localized but located within the school? Also...

How are the prices of the Bufflo routers you found? I'm guessing pretty high? I would say to go for the cheapest route for now. Btw, officedepot has an ethernet switch for $5 or -$5 after rebate. The price changes by the minute. If you plan on doing this as a long term solution, then I...

Wow. I've never seen this before. I don't understand why schools would spend so much money to bother. btw, What's the range on this? What if you live close to the school? Wouldn't it kill APs that it has no control over?