help with setting a wireless network

[dentalboy]

just bought 2 us robotic pci wirless adapter with card, model 2415
and a linksys wirless router with 4 ports, and suggestion, will there be much conflict

 

[bbqweed]

no conflict...since both devices are 802.11b...they will communicate...

make sure on the US Robotics, the configuration is set to match that of the Linksys....which is:

SSID (or ESSID): linksys (this is case sensitive)
mode: infrastructure

the card should pick up the default channel as : 6

 

[dentalboy]

thanx a bunch bbqweed,
how does this usr card rate, i bought it for the flexibility of using it with my laptop too

 

[bbqweed]

haven't played much with the USR...but it should be fine...

I know that the cards with the best range are:

Orinoco or Linksys (WPC11v.3)

i can't honestly tell you about the USR...but I do work with a lot of wireless so...as long as it's 802.11b...it WILL talk...

 

[ktwebb]

Linksys cards have notoriously poor range. Perhaps their newer cards are improved. Orinco/Agere are good cards. Cisco 100 mW 350 offer the best range, feature set, througput etc etc.., but at a very high cost.

 

[KMHPaladin]

I'm using a DLink DI-713P router and US Robotics card. The range is not terrific, but it's not terrible. My room is on the opposite side of the house, and on another floor, from the router, and I get acceptable communication there. If I put it on a shelf by the door, I get pretty much constant 11mbits/s connection. If I put it on the far side of my room, it hangs around 5.5 and drops to 2 or 1 and occasionally spikes to 11. I've thought about going with an external antenna for the DI-713P but I'm still evaluating my options.

Be sure that you set the USR card to "Infrastructure" mode. I wish I'd remembered that, would have saved me a few hours.