Who makes reliable wireless products?

[Bookworm]

Re: Who makes reliable wireless products?

If you _really_ want flexible, do some research. Several of the Linksys products run Linux kernels, which means that there are several aftermarket firmware options.

[willawake]

Re: Who makes reliable wireless products?

now i am using WAP54G 3.1 with HyperWAP firmware
http://default-ip-address/fw-conf.asp
disable “Downgrade Header.”
get WAP54Gv3_3_04_02-HyperWAP-fifi.1.trx
ftp://ftp.fifi.org/pub/phil/wap54g/
go to administration / firmware
and load up the file

no probs and now have access to transmit power settings (default 42 up to 84)
and choice of antenna for TX/RX

seems to work ok, and now have excellent on balcony
i was getting slow login before with WPA-Personal, now switched to WPA2-Personal and seems better. odd.....

there is some warnings though

WARNING: Setting the output power of the WAP54G higher than 75mW can damage the device unless steps are taken to ensure it is very well ventilated.

WARNING: Different countries have different regulations regarding the maximum output power a device may emit. In the UK, emitting radio waves on these bands above 60mW is illegal and could result in prosecution. These regulations may differ to your country - you have been warned!

[kc8adu]

Re: Who makes reliable wireless products?

like anyone will ever know you bumped it up.
uh oh fcc knocking.
gotta run!

now i am using WAP54G 3.1 with HyperWAP firmware
http://default-ip-address/fw-conf.asp
disable “Downgrade Header.”
get WAP54Gv3_3_04_02-HyperWAP-fifi.1.trx
ftp://ftp.fifi.org/pub/phil/wap54g/
go to administration / firmware
and load up the file

no probs and now have access to transmit power settings (default 42 up to 84)
and choice of antenna for TX/RX

seems to work ok, and now have excellent on balcony
i was getting slow login before with WPA-Personal, now switched to WPA2-Personal and seems better. odd.....

there is some warnings though

[willawake]

Re: Who makes reliable wireless products?

lol you think i give a shit

[willawake]

Re: Who makes reliable wireless products?

woah i turned it down some cos it was getting a bit toasty

anyway, installed dd-wrt micro firmware instead but after a few settings changes now it doesnt keep any settings, the apply.cgi just makes a blank page. cant seem to reset it either, even using the various "press the reset button for 30 seconds while standing on left foot, stand on right foot and pull the power cord for 3 seconds, press the reset button, twirl around and shout 'save me computer gods' etc.........

anyway bored now.

[zandrax]

Re: Who makes reliable wireless products?

Willa, are you sure there isn't a Linksys firmware recovery utility? The reset button should put your router in "Please, send me a firmware"-mode and you should reflash it with a Linksys program (basically, a tiny Tftp server who uploads rom images only to recongnized routers).

Zandrax

[shadow]

Re: Who makes reliable wireless products?

The reset button should put your router in "Please, send me a firmware"-mode and you should reflash it with a Linksys program (basically, a tiny Tftp server who uploads rom images only to recongnized routers).

That is how Linksys works.

However what is confusing is that there are two types of reset. A configuration reset is done by pressing the button for 30 seconds. There is also a hardware reset. Basically what Zandrax is talking about. There a many methods to achieve this, however none of them are particularly easy. I have to dig up a page I had about various methods of resetting the firmware on the router.

[shadow]

Re: Who makes reliable wireless products?

Found the page! Although it is for the WRTxxx series of routers. It should still be effective!

http://www.linksysinfo.org/forums/sh...ad.php?t=47259

This guide shows all the ways to reflash the router. The one way that will be 100% effective every time is to re-program the router using a JTAG cable. I have heard great success stories using the shorting pins 15 and 16 method.

[shadow]

Re: Who makes reliable wireless products?

http://wiki.openwrt.org/WAP54GHowto

This site probably has more relevant documentation for you. It is specifically about the WAP54G.

[gonzo0815]

Re: Who makes reliable wireless products?

A simple NVram erase should do the trick. Unless the unit is messed up completely to the level of no boot, a reflash is not necessary.

The shorting pins 15 and 16 method is somehow a last resort, it simply shorts out the signal lines of the flash chip, to force the unit loading a basic recovery system.
Although i have used this method several times to de brick my wrt54g, i would not recommend to do this for anything else then a completely death unit (e.g. continuous blinking led and no response with TFTP flash proggi).

[willawake]

Re: Who makes reliable wireless products?

thanks for the docs and info

i erased nvram
and managed to load hyperwap again

[Per Hansson]

Re: Who makes reliable wireless products?

I've been running half a dozen Linksys WRT54GS linksys AP's in a wireless MESH network

Two of them outside in sub zero temp in the winter, and 30°C+ in the summer...
One of them is in a tupperware box that I made two holes in for the antenna to poke out through
It's duct taped to a pole, it gets power from an extension cord, and the "power brick" that says for indoor use only is also duct taped to the same pole and getting rained/snowed on

They have survived direct lightning strikes that took out almost everything else in the area, refrigerators, phones, computers etc...

They where installed by me ca 3 years ago now I think, maybe more than that, might be 4 years

Do I think Linksys are reliable? Hell yes!
Tho it takes a decent firmware like the Sveasoft Talisman that everyone else hates...

This might be of interest too;

http://www.techspot.com/blog/44/fina...n-the-forrest/

Ya, that's a Linksys 20m up in a fucking spruce tree biatch!

And whoever said I was normal?

[willawake]

Re: Who makes reliable wireless products?

damn thats one big climb
i might be nuts but not that nuts

[gonzo0815]

Re: Who makes reliable wireless products?

To get ride of an 56k connection, i would do near anything.

[willawake]

Re: Who makes reliable wireless products?

imagine, in the office up until end 2004 we had to SHARE a dial up connection.

thanks god they found some old copper in the street to wire up adsl infrastructure in this port city.

now thanks to wifi everywhere i get delayed there is some unsecured router lol.

[acstech]

Re: Who makes reliable wireless products?

thanks god they found some old copper in the street to wire up adsl infrastructure in this port city.

Now where's those rats when we need 'em?

[PedroDaGr8]

Re: Who makes reliable wireless products?

Buffalo makes some good quality stuff, especially after you flash it to DD-WRT. I don't know about long term. I have a WRT-54Gv.3 that has been running 2.5 yrs strong on 3 reboots (2 were for upgraded firmware and 1 was when I changed a setting that required a reboot). No problems AT ALL. By teh way, from what I understand a lot of linksys's stuff is actually WORSE after the cisco aquisition.

[willawake]

Re: Who makes reliable wireless products?

this wap54g needs a reboot regularly. like i am only using it in the late evening, come next evening no signal. not impressive. unfortunately i have another one still in the box which a client did not want

[shadow]

Re: Who makes reliable wireless products?

this wap54g needs a reboot regularly. like i am only using it in the late evening, come next evening no signal. not impressive. unfortunately i have another one still in the box which a client did not want

Quite unfortunate. My WRT54GS can handle not being rebooted for hundreds of days. It is pretty rock solid. Unfortunately this will probably not be the case when the Hermei caps start to go.

[zandrax]

Re: Who makes reliable wireless products?

willa, open your router and check its caps: I think you know what are Linksys common issues.

Zandrax