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)

Good! Let me know if you have periodic connectivity outages.
I seem to, and I haven't been able to figure out whether it's
from Time Warner, the router, or Linux (I suspect the router...).

> It has firmware version 1.40.2, Nov 28 2001

I have 1.1 Release 04. My experience with firmware upgrades
for this thing has been very unhappy. And the folks at Linksys
tech support I've spoken to aren't very knowledgeable.

Don't miss the hidden page for changing the MAC address:
  http://192.168.1.1/mac.html


 - Ian

>
> [2] http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00005ARK3/geraldoskoboiny
> [3] http://www.futureshop.ca/catalog/proddetail.asp?logon=&langid=EN&dept=0&WLBS=fs%2Dweb4&biasid=B288A438143C45E3B729BB8ED1C13E27&sku_id=0665000FS10006707&catid=&newdeptid=1
>


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