The joys of technology Jan 06. 062
I’ve spent perhaps 7 or 8 hours trying to configure a Belkin Wireless Access point which I bought from PC World a few months back. I was advised that the ‘Bridging Mode’ which this access point had meant that I would be able to attach wired ethernet devices to my Wireless LAN with little fuss. Hmm… not so.
I finally discovered after much googling that the little Belkin box will never do the job, it’s apparently only compatable with Belkin routers and mine is a Linksys.
At the weekend I stuffed the little belkin box on eBay and ordered a Linksys Wireless Ethernet Bridge from dabs. It arrived 20 minutes ago and it’s already set up and working a treat.
The moral of the story. Never listen to a PC World sales man and always by same brand products when you’re dealing with Wireless networking. Unless of course you’re a complete geek and know what you’re doing.
I tried to set-up a belkin wireless access-point with a friend’s new ibook. It was an utter nightmare. The web interface didn’t work with Safari due to being badly written and the form posts were solely driven by javascript. In the end I had to hack together the config by working out the GET variables and building the url to send to each cgi script.
After all that (and after I’d installed IE for mac) I tried setting up WEP and mac address security and it just refused to work. You did the right thing!