"Ian B. Jacobs" <
[email protected]> writes:
> Gerald Oskoboiny wrote:
> > On Thu, Mar 14, 2002 at 12:43:09PM -0500, Gerald Oskoboiny wrote:
> >
> >>On Thu, Mar 14, 2002 at 08:31:40AM -0500, Ian B. Jacobs wrote:
> >>
> >>>Hello all,
> >>>
> >>>I offered myself a geek treat and installed a Linksys
> >>>BEFW11P1 [1] EtherFast ? Wireless AP + Cable/DSL Router w/PrintServer.
> >>
> >>I'll probably buy something like that when my current wireless
> >>router (6+ year old Compaq Armada laptop) kicks the bucket.
> > My old laptop-based base station died a few weeks ago, so I
> > bought a Linksys BEFW11S4 Wireless 4-Port Cable/DSL Router [2]
> > (basically the same as yours without the print server, I think)
> > for $250 CAD +tax (~$185 USD) from a local retail store (future shop)
> > (actually, it was $275 - $25 mailin rebate) [3]
> > I finally got around to plugging it in tonight, and was expecting
> > to have to do some messing around with config options and maybe a
> > firmware upgrade, but it just worked. I tweaked a couple minor
> > things to make it fit better with my existing network, and wired
> > and wireless access both work fine. (so far)
Pretty sure that's the Linksys model I got my sister and set up for
her. Don't forget to change the default password as apparently you
can get at the web ui with the public IP. I set my sister's to only
allow wireless by MAC address since she was paranoid after seeing [1].
1.
http://www.doonesbury.ucomics.com/strip/dailydose/index.cfm?uc_full_date=20020721&uc_comic=db&uc_daction=X
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