Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2002 15:04:30 -0600 From: Jon Hamilton <hamilton@pobox.com> To: John Reynolds~ <jreynold@sedona.ch.intel.com> Cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: DWL-650 NIC and access points -- what have people used? Message-ID: <20020219210430.GA48975@woodstock.monkey.net> In-Reply-To: <15474.41467.217901.912144@chlx169.ch.intel.com> References: <15474.41467.217901.912144@chlx169.ch.intel.com>
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John Reynolds~ <jreynold@sedona.ch.intel.com>, said on Tue Feb 19, 2002 [12:05:31 PM]: } } Hi all, } } I am wondering what access points people have used in combination with the } D-link DWL-650 NIC? [ tale of woe with DWL-1000AP deleted ] I had a very similar experience, and returned the DWL-1000AP and picked up the Linksys WAP11. I've had reasonably good luck; the configuration was via Windows software and a USB connection. There is also an SNMP configuration method, which I vaguely mistrust largely because it can't be turned off, and listens on the wireless side as well as the wired side. There is a MAC filter which can be used to limit the MAC addresses it'll talk to on the wireless side, but this is only viewable/settable from the SNMP manager. I also have problems with this combination (DWL-650 and WAP11) getting progressively slower over time; the latency starts to noticibly drag after about 18 hours of uptime on the WAP11 (regardless of whether there is a wireless connection for that entire time or not). I work around that by having home automation cycle the power off and back on to the WAP11 every 12 hours, and that works fine for me, but it's decidedly poor. I did upgrade the firmware on the WAP11 with no noticible effects on that problem, but admittedly haven't investigated much further since I have a workaround. -- Jon Hamilton hamilton@pobox.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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