On Fri, 21 Jul 2006 22:55:06 GMT John Navas <spamfilter0@navasgroup.com> wrote:

| Read Wikipedia and the wikis below. Lots of helpful links.
|
| The problem is that you're trying to do something beyond normal consumer
| networking, so it's inevitably going to get complicated if you're not
| willing to pay (or beg) an expert to do it for you.
|
| You should decide whether you want to (a) debate terminology or (b) get
| your network working. I'm happy to help with (b), but don't really have
| the time for (a).

Here's how I think you can help, not me particularly (although had you done
this before AND had I done my research and found it, this would have saved
some confusion). Put SOMETHING on your wiki that explains that the Netgear
WGT624 _will_ have the limitations of an access point. Maybe you could do
this simply enough by explaining that the Netgear WGT624 _is_ an access
point. The Netgear website DOES NOT. The PDF data sheet for the WGT624
DOES NOT. Those failures by Netgear are certainly not your fault. But I
believe your wiki could be substantially more helpful to people if it
explained specific models of products from specific vendors and what roles
in a WLAN those models could or must operate. Maybe start a specific page
for each wireless device model on the market. Then on that page all the
features ... and misfeatures ... of that model can be made available. Then
people can find out things they really want to know without having to sift
the all the sales BS. I suppose I could start my own wiki. But you
already have a very good start. And while your wiki is open to public
update, I don't think it's my role to substantially update its structure.

I haven't really lost anything in all this due to not knowing what I have
learned after the fact. I still need to have 2 wireless broadband routers.
I know now NOT to buy a 3rd one, and instead, to get a WCB. For now, the
no-model bridge I have gets minimal things working and I can put off buying
a decent WCB.

However, having learned about a lot of limitations of the standarized
technology and of the various models being made, I believe it would have
been a better choice to have bought the Linksys WRT54G or WRT54GL. This
would be so that I can hack my own firmware. I'm going to take the
WGT624's back for refund, and get a pair of WRT54G's instead, maybe just
one of them for now, and a WET54G (if I can find a place that sells them).

Is there any reason I should get a WRT54GL instead of a WRT54G?

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