[AccessD] OT: Three routers, weird problems

Jim Lawrence accessd at shaw.ca
Tue Feb 21 00:36:09 CST 2012


Well the price was right John.

My router was much more expensive and I still can not adapt it...It has a
bug that allows it to stop certain addresses; fortunately only a very few. A
Dlink senior tech logged in and confirmed it, no fix. Also, the router has a
problem with the WiFi from my Toshiba laptop which causes it to sometimes
drop a connection....also a documented bug. The only recommendation from
Dlink was to buy the new model and at least it would still be under full
warranty; not that it would fix anything. My next router will definitely be
programmable.

Jim

-----Original Message-----
From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of jwcolby
Sent: Monday, February 20, 2012 9:00 PM
To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
Subject: Re: [AccessD] OT: Three routers, weird problems

Unfortunately they come in all sizes of memory.  I was unable to specify the
precise model when I 
ordered from Newegg and got one of the models with too little memory to do
the trick.  I soooo 
wanted to do that.

In the end they work fine as access points and they were cheap.  I got them
for something like $29 
each refurbished and they have worked perfectly ever since.  I am still
using them just for the wifi 
/ switch part for getting my laptops access all over my rather spread out
house.

John W. Colby
Colby Consulting

Reality is what refuses to go away
when you do not believe in it

On 2/20/2012 10:30 PM, Jim Lawrence wrote:
> John, you can turn your cheap router into Cisco-like fully programmable
> router. Here is the link:
>
>
http://lifehacker.com/178132/hack-attack-turn-your-60-router-into-a-600-rout
> er
> ...and...
>
http://lifehacker.com/344765/turn-your-60-router-into-a-user+friendly-super+
> router-with-tomato
>
> Check here to see if your router is supported:
> http://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/Supported_Devices
>
> If you really want to go nuts here are a list of various router upgrades:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_router_or_firewall_distributions
>
> Am I sure it will help you? Not sure but probably.
>
> Would have upgraded mine but it was the only DLink that could not be
> upgraded...Probably just as well. :-(
>
> Jim
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
> [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of jwcolby
> Sent: Monday, February 20, 2012 7:05 PM
> To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
> Subject: Re: [AccessD] OT: Three routers, weird problems
>
> You're gonna love this one.  The new router DHCP default begin ip address
is
> 192.168.0.10 and the
> default end is 192.168.0.19.
>
> NINE stinking addresses available by default.  All of my other routers
have
> defaulted to 09-99.  So
> basically I just manually set the ending address to 99 and rebooted the
> router and voila, at least
> some of my issues are gone.  I was struggling for the last hour to get one
> of my laptops to get an
> IP address, it just wouldn't.  Now I know why!  Once I opened up the range
> it immediately grapped
> one, I didn't even have to do a release / renew.
>
> NINE STINKIN IP addresses available by default.  It just never occurred to
> me to check that as I was
> setting it up.  I have never in all my years seen 19 used as the last
> available IP.
>
> John W. Colby
> Colby Consulting
>
> Reality is what refuses to go away
> when you do not believe in it

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