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Date:	Tue, 7 Mar 2006 10:29:47 PST8
From:	Colin Campbell <cmcampb@adelphia.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Next step in going wireless...

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Ray Davison wrote:
> Colin Campbell wrote:
>
>> Since the last SCOUG meeting, I have connected both of my PCs to the
>> Linksys WRT54G Router via Ethernet cables, and both machines work fine
>> doing Internet access, newsgroup browsing, e-mail, etc. At that
>> meeting, Jerry Rash gave me some ideas on how to get a wireless
>> connection going for one of the PCs, so that I could move it to
>> another part of my house.
>>
>> The idea I have chosen to try is to buy a Linksys WAP54G Access Point.
>> Jerry said that I needed one that could be set up to act as a Bridge,
>> and this unit says it does allow that.
>>
>> Does this sound right? Please give me some confidence building feedback!
>
>
> That sounds like too much stuff. If you have a WRT54G what do you want
> with a separate WAP? I can connect to the WEB thru my WRT54G, and also
> thru two of me neighbors routers. Thru mine I connect to my other four
> machines. Isn't that all you want?
>
> Ray
>
Ray,
I have two desktop PCs, both with Intel PRO/100 (or PRO/1000) Ethernet
cards, and I have been using _wired_ access on one or the other PC at a
time. Now, using the WRT54G Router, I can connect both PCs at once if I
want to. But I'm still using _wired_ access.

I want to be able to move one of the PCs to a different part of my
house, and that's why I'm trying to get wireless working. I don't have
a wireless NIC for either desktop. I got the WAP54G as an alternative
to finding a wireless NIC that would work with OS/2.

I have gone through the Setup process for the Access Point. I updated
the firmware on the Router, but I had problems updating the firmware. I
have an e-mail in with Linksys asking about this. (The AP formware
update was a .ZIP file. I unzipped it on Win2K Pro, and got a .TRX
file, which neither Windows nor I know how to process.)

While looking around on the Linksys Web site, I found an article titled
"Setting up a WAP54G as a wireless repeater with a WRT54G". I followed
these steps, and, wonder of wonders,

I now have a working wireless connection to my Dell PC!!!

Of course, the connection distance is still under three feet, so I'll
have to experiment with moving the PC and AP further from "home base".
Colin

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