[Pc_Support] Looking for a Wireless AP ...

[Bryan J. Smith]

Well, I made the chronically _stupid_ decision to upgrade my Linksys
WAP11G's firmware.  I was running with old 1.06 on a very aged design
which was the last of the basic 1.0x firmwares and I was looking to
enable some WPA goodies in the newer 3.0x firmware.  In all honesty, it
had been in a box for the last 2 years, and worked but I figured I
should upgrade the firmware.

I downloaded it from the 1.0 release page and verified the newer 3.0x
firmware worked with such an old model.  No return after power cycle --
should have known better.  Holding in the reset button for 60 seconds to
clear the settings didn't fare any better.

So now I'm in the market for a new Wireless AP.  Doesn't have to be
anything great, I'm just going to use some older Prims2.0 11Mbps WLAN
cards with it.  Have IPCop, Blue Zone, w/OpenVPN plug-in, etc... so I'll
just take any standard WAP with WEP, although WPA would be nice too.

Kinda curious if anyone is buying the cheap wireless routers and turning
them into WAP without the NAT.  I don't need the NAT, that's what IPCop
is for (hence why I bought the WAP11G before).  Or if I should just go
for a bridging WAP and not deal with the ones that have NAT and all
those headaches.

Again, not looking for anything fancy -- just the access point bridge
functionality.  I use IPCop and other things as a security appliance.



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Bryan J. Smith           Professional, technical annoyance
mailto:b.j.smith at ieee.org     http://thebs413.blogspot.com
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