[AccessD] OT: Wireless network (sort of)

John:

I heard that you can daisy chain hubs off one of the ports on your router to
get more ports and that you can go up to 255 devices from one router this
way.  Seems to easy and cheap, though.

I've also found that when creating a new network it sometimes takes a few
minutes for the different shared devices to 'see' each other - especially on
the wireless.  So I'll whang around frustrated trying to get the network to
work and then have the same experience you had - after a few minutes,
suddenly the other machines are in my network neighborhood.  Go figure.

Rocky

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Colby" <jcolby at colbyconsulting.com>
To: "Database Advisors Inc. (Tech)" <Dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com>;
"AccessD" <AccessD at databaseadvisors.com>
Sent: Thursday, October 30, 2003 5:39 PM
Subject: [AccessD] OT: Wireless network (sort of)


> I ordered a Netgear MR814v2 Wireless router a couple of weeks ago.  I
needed
> to expand my 4 port router (I had 5 things I kept needing to plug in) and
> the Netgear was on sale at www.Newegg.com at the time.  I then tried and
> failed to install a linksys WPC11v2.5 I had laying around, so I ordered a
> dlink dwl-650 that was on sale (rebate) at www.newegg.com.  Long story
> short, it didn't work.  Long story a little longer, a very long call to
> dlink tech support, did not solve the problem.
>
> Or maaaaaybe it did.  After failing to figure anything out, they
recommended
> that I upgrade my laptop bios.  It's an ancient (now) 233mhz PII Toshiba
> Satellite 4000 that I bought with my first paycheck from my trip to work
for
> Mr. Breen in Dublin Ireland back in hmmm..... November 1997?  Getting a
bit
> long in the tooth, truth be told.
>
> The bios upgrade and also the old "turn off NAV before installing etc.
And
> "oh by the way, our card requires at least a 300 mhz processor.  So I
> uninstalled, upgraded to the latest bios (May 2000?), turned off NAV,
> reinstalled the drivers and re-installed the card.  Still no joy.  The
site
> survey showed no transmitters, and dlink tech support assured me that if
> there was a transmitter I would see it regardless.
>
> Ignorant liars!
>
> Went back in and reconfigured the card in the laptop for channel 11 (it
> defaulted to 3 and the router was on 11), played around with a couple of
> other things and boom, I see a transmitter.  Went in to the router config
> page and changed the SSID and sure enough the thing I'm seeing on the
laptop
> changes to match!  Still no connection though.
>
> Rebooted, played around some more and suddenly (no clear idea why) I have
a
> wireless connection, can browse my network and see the web.  Yeaaaaa.
>
> Moral of the story, tech support generally sucks, play around, don't quit,
> and eventually the gods will reward you.  Or not.
>
> Now, I need to know what to do to tighten this thing up so that others
can't
> see my network.  I'm a bit afraid to touch anything since I don't really
> know what I did to finally get it running.
>
> Can anyone walk me through tightening this up?
>
> John W. Colby
> www.colbyconsulting.com
>
>
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