[dba-Tech] For Rocky - Wireless Networking

Gary Kjos garykjos at hotmail.com
Wed Mar 10 09:21:16 CST 2004


The prices of the 11g stuff has gone way down. I'd go with the 11g router 
and an 11g card for the laptop. Quit fooling around with it and do what you 
know you need to. ;-)

Gary Kjos
garykjos at hotmail.com


>From: "Rocky Smolin - Beach Access Software" <bchacc at san.rr.com>
>Reply-To: Discussion of Hardware and Software 
>issues<dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com>
>To: "Discussion of Hardware and Software 
>issues"<dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com>
>Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] For Rocky - Wireless Networking
>Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2004 06:56:21 -0800
>
>I was thinking of going over to Fry's today and get an 11g router.  But if
>it's no more stable than the b there's probably no good reason to do it.
>
>I changed channels again but it didn't seem to do any good.  The signal is
>good and the wireless network is connected but I don't get email or 
>internet
>access.
>
>When I look at the IP address it's not a good one - it should be in the
>192.168.1.n range and it's some other strange address.  I got it reset this
>morning and now it's working but very very slowly.
>
>Also when I look at the available networks dialog box, I'm seeing a network
>called 'thewunetwork' there along with our wire less network which is named
>'linksys' (I should probably change that).
>
>Any clues form all this?
>
>Rocky
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Bobby Heid" <bheid at appdevgrp.com>
>To: "'Discussion of Hardware and Software issues'"
><dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com>
>Sent: Wednesday, March 10, 2004 6:29 AM
>Subject: RE: [dba-Tech] For Rocky - Wireless Networking
>
>
> > Edward,
> >
> > I don't think this will solve his problem unless the existing router is
>the
> > problem.  The G router would still have to transmit at the same
>frequencies
> > as the original router.  So if there is some sort of interference, I 
>would
> > assume that it would still interfere.
> >
> > Although I may just be completely wrong.  LOL
> >
> > Bobby
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
> > [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Tesiny, Ed
> > Sent: Wednesday, March 10, 2004 9:24 AM
> > To: DBA-tech at databaseadvisors.com
> > Subject: [dba-Tech] For Rocky - Wireless Networking
> >
> >
> > Hi Rocky,
> > Thinking back to when I was looking into wireless, I believe I read that 
>a
> > wireless 11b device could pick up a wireless 11g broadcast and work 
>fine.
> > It doesn't work in the other direction.  So I'm wondering, if just
>changing
> > the router to 11g might help the problem.  Can anyone else verify this, 
>I
> > couldn't find my notes on this. Ed

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