David Arnstein wrote:
> I have just obtained a Sonicwall TZ-150 wireless appliance and a
> Netgear EVA700 media player. The latter is a box that takes input from
> an RJ-45 cable or 802.11g radio waves, and outputs audio and video
> (analog) to a TV.
>
> These two devices are not playing nice. Perhaps this is a common theme
> in the world of 802.11g?
>
> I am thinking that I might have to try placing a wireless bridge
> between the two devices. What I mean is that I would continue to use
> the TZ-150 as a wireless router/firewall/access point. I would attach
> a simple bridge to the EVA700 via RJ-45 cable. The bridge would "talk" to
> the TZ-150 via radio and relay to the RJ-45 cable, out to the EVA700.
>
> Another midnight engineering project.
>
> My problem is that I can't find a decent bridge. I want WPA, and I
> want reasonable bandwidth, in order to support streaming MPEG
> bitstreams at HDTV bitrates. 15 Mbit/s. would be nice.
>
> The Linksys WET54G would be ideal, except that it might be a piece of
> shit. I have looked at the user reviews at Amazon.com and I am not
> encouraged.
>
> Am I going to have to deploy a full service wireless AP and configure
> it to be a simple bridge? Or is there a nice, compact bridge that
> doesn't suck?
>
> Thanks for any suggestions.


As far as the WET54G is concerned I have had pretty good luck with them
until recently. The last 3 that I have deployed (version 3 latest
firmware) lockup about once a week. I think I'll try and replace them
with WRT54GL's running dd-wrt and stay away from them in the future.

Ian