[AccessD] OT: Wireless network (sort of)

If any of your other devices are running Windows 95,
Windows 98, or Windows NT (server or workstation) it
can, theoretically, take up to 45 minutes for them to
show up on the network.  I say theoretically because
they rarely take that long to show up but that is the
timeout for Microsoft's "LAN Manager" browser
elections to trickle down.

--- Rocky Smolin - Beach Access Software
<bchacc at san.rr.com> wrote:
> 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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