One more thing, and this is the one that intrigues me the most --<br><br>I found, while cleaning out my basement, and unopened Linksys Wireless G PCI adapter, model WMP54G.<br><br>If I installed this into my desktop PC, would I be able to use it as an access point?
<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 4/17/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Michael H. Semcheski</b> <<a href="mailto:mhsemcheski@gmail.com">mhsemcheski@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Hello,<br><br>I've got a Linksys 54G (an early enough model that its effectively a GL).<br><br>It was working fine, until about four months ago. At that time, my girlfriend's iBook stopped connecting to it reliably.
<br>Then, two weeks or so ago, my Thinkpad started having trouble. <br>I pulled up NetStumbler, and my wireless router seems to be inconsistent. Its hard to explain, but what's notable is that rebooting it (via unplugging and replugging its power) fixes it, if only temporarily.
<br><br>Rebooting should not have much affect if its working correctly, in my opinion. It leads me to believe that there is some faulty hardware. Its about two and a half years, so I'm neither shocked nor appalled.
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<br>So here's my question:<br><br>I installed OpenWRT (White Russian) on it when it was relatively new. I've been about as happy with it as could be expected. Some problems with DHCP, but there are other things that might be to blame. Largely, its been invisible. I really like dnsmasq -- an integrated DNS / DHCP server for small networks.
<br><br>So tomorrow, I'm going to get another router. Not sure what kind, any suggestions? Probably go to a retailer for it, and I'm happy to hear suggestions on that too.<br><br>I'd like to use the new router as the 'main' one, and set up the old one maybe not too far away as a supplemental signal, via WDS.
<br><br>What firmware would you go with? <br>
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