Peter Pan wrote:
> Philip wrote:
>> Thanks very much for the assurances, Peter.
>>
>> Slightly OT but, I note that a Linksys WRT54G wireless router + 4 port
>> bridge is $49 locally while a WAP54G access point (no nothing) is $59.
>> Seems like buying another WRT54G and using it as an access point is
>> the best deal.
>
> Yup, and a bonus is that if you have two (or 3 or 4 or... of the same), and
> one goes belly up, it makes it easy to diagnose/fix when they are all the
> same.... If you do use a second one with the powerline, think I mentioned
> same ssid/different channel, and forgot to mention the same subnet (if you
> want to share between devices on different routers), and use a router port
> rather than the wan in port...
>
>
> You may be interested in these instead
> Powerline Wireless Access Points
> http://www.netgear.com/Products/Powe...essPoints.aspx
>
> Same thing, plug one unit into the powerline and wap/router, and the other
> (the AP part) can be plugged in anywhere in the house for an extra AP (works
> with the PDA, however, only 54mbps and haven't figured out how to use
> multiples on the same subnet to have lots of ap's, nor how to use wpa2)....
> If you only need one more ap, then it is actually even a few bucks cheaper
> (about $10) to get that (link above) rather than a separate 102 and a wrt54g
>

Yes I saw those, but sort of discounted them because, of
cost-performance. They have the same price as the XE102's, but slower,
and appear to support only two point, not multiple drops.

The built in access point is neat, but I'd rather have a good one with a
standard antenna.