wireless connection for my Quadra?

[vassilizaitsev]

So, we may have read my previous post... where I have bought a wireless internet router/modem, which I connected to the Quadra650 via an ethernet cable... and I think it killed the Quadra!

Ho hum, not sure that I can do anything about that...

Now, I've seen this device;

http://www.digital-fusion.co.uk/INU_Products/INU_ProdDetailsL9.ASP?ref=06005569&pnb=F5D7330UK&des=Wireless-Ethernet-Adapter-802.11g-Uk

It claims that it will connect any ethernet capable computer/device..... do I go for it?

If it's not a direct ethernet cable connection.... does this mean it shouldn't kill the next Quadra I try it on...

 

[Gorgonops]

If you destroyed the ethernet device on your Quadra when you plugged into the bad router then that thing won't help. It gets an ethernet-equipped machine onto a wireless network... which obviously requires a working ethernet port.

... and you *did* throw out whatever destroyed your Quadra, right? If it's so badly screwed up it's zapping machines plugged into its ethernet ports you don't exactly want to keep using it.

 

[Mycatisbigfoot]

well I would look at the small wall plug apple router. The air port express I think, its the one thats like a wall plug, I use that to piggy back my enthernet in the bacement, I have it hooked to my 360 at the moment, and it works fine,

and it was easy to set up, but the stupid set up app runs on windows xp and osx 10.5 and up I think.

 

[Flash!]

Any old wireless access point, such as a linksys WAP54 (note that's WAP54, not WRT54) attached to your quadra's ethernet port will work. Data goes from your mac, via cable to the WAP, wireless from the WAP to your router...voila, one wireless quadra!

 

[MacJunky]

Any old wireless access point, such as a linksys WAP54 (note that's WAP54, not WRT54) attached to your quadra's ethernet port will work. Data goes from your mac, via cable to the WAP, wireless from the WAP to your router...voila, one wireless quadra!

To act as a wireless client the WAP54G needs to connect to another linksys product.If you want to use it as a client and have it connect to a router/access point of a different brand you need to slap DD-WRT on there or something. I put DD-WRT on my WAP54G so I could use it in client mode with my DLink router and once I had it setup(an easy setup really) I have not had to touch it since.

 

[Flash!]

Hmm well I've used the WAP54G in a mixed environment with no problems. You could use any brand of access point (more or less), I'm only really familiar with linksys.....I'm not suprised that it did not work with your d-link though - you'd be lucky for a d-link device to connect to another d-link device let alone a linksys! As far as I'm concerned, d-link wireless products are Sh** with a capital 'S' (and I say that from experience rather than any loyalty to linksys)

I agree though, DD-WRT is great software!!!!!!

 

[MacJunky]

I'm not suprised that it did not work with your d-link though - you'd be lucky for a d-link device to connect to another d-link device let alone a linksys! As far as I'm concerned, d-link wireless products are Sh** with a capital 'S' (and I say that from experience rather than any loyalty to linksys)
I agree though, DD-WRT is great software!!!!!!

*shrug* My dlink router has been working well. People were telling me what a bad choice I made when getting my WAP54G and WPC54G but they worked just fine. People again tell me I made a bad choice getting a dlink router but it too works fine.
The only wireless devices I have had issues with and suggest that you avoid like the plague are _anything_ with a ralink chipset. Those drivers are pure garbage. I have tried different chipsets(G&N) on the same and different machines(PPC, x86, Tiger, Leopard) and each one kernel panics without fail if you do much more than barely use a web browser. >:|

Aside from the drivers KPing, those suckers end up with so many errors that they basically DoS your wifi.

Also had problems with an ASUS made broadcom based PCI card lagging the wifi. We have never had _any_ issues with the hardware built into our portable computers or that WPC54G I mentioned above though.

I have a feeling that the people warning me against linksys and then later dlink in the past were just using cheap crappy hardware/drivers to connect to them. Once you get the crap hardware/drivers off your network everything works beautifully.

 

[Flash!]

Well I've had very poor results with d-link wireless gear (only wireless though - I've got a 4 port active KVM and that works great!) And when I say 'poor results' I mean that with the kit of equipment we purchased at the time, three of us spent several hours each trying to set up a couple of routers and bridges. After we'd all failed, and none of us are idiots, we figured that someone should call tech support (at the time there was a free number you could call) and I drew the short straw so I had to make the call. Well after more than two hours on the phone (not counting being on hold for 30 minutes) and still not being able to sort it out we took all the junk back to the store and swapped it out for linksys - only coz that's what the shop had in stock. And ever since then I've pretty much used linksys exclusively. The "blue brick' series of linksys gear just works, though I am not a fan of the newer models.

Linksys firmware is not too bad but a little limited - you can't, for example, change your subnet mask on a WRT router which means that you can't span subnets...linksys firmware will not assign static IP addresses via DHCP.........but DD-WRT firmware on linksys hardware is bloody fantastic!