Like my work? If you're looking for a Bracknell Web Design Agency then drop us a line at 'Nine Four' and we can hook up for a chat.

The joys of technology Friday January 6, 2006

Listen to this

Tag this

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.

Posted in: Technology

 
Play online poker at Full Tilt Poker and PokerStars. The best online poker rooms still open to US players. welike-Poker.com provides unbiased and critical online poker room reviews.

  1. Stuart

    Jan 6, 02:01 PM

    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!

  2. Nathan Pitman

    Jan 9, 11:36 AM

    The irony of the ad which google just served:

    Belkin Router Wireless
    Ensure connectivity & buy a wireless from a brand you trust. Look now

    Hmm! Yea, not sure about that. Would have been more suitable to serve an ad for Linksys wireless products given the circumstances. :)
Leave your comments
name:
email: Gravatar enabled.
http://
Format your message with Textile.
Remember

related

recently

The 10 most recent articles.