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WiFi at Sea (technical, sorry)
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"Capt. JG" wrote: "Wayne.B" wrote in message ... On Thu, 28 Dec 2006 10:02:10 -0500, "Bill Kearney" wkearney-99@hot-mail-com wrote: WRT54G Bill, does the firmware in the WRT54G allow selection of an access point by MAC address in addition to SSID? The Wireless Mac Filter section of the router has the following options: Prevent PCs listed from accessing the wireless. Permit only PCs listed to access the wireless network. And, it gives you the ability to edit the MAC filter list. Here's the text of the help screen... The Wireless MAC Filters feature allows you to control which wireless-equipped PCs may or may not communicate with the Router's depending on their MAC addresses. To disable the Wireless MAC Filters feature, keep the default setting, Disable. To set up a filter, click Enable, and follow these instructions: 1. If you want to block specific wireless-equipped PCs from communicating with the Router, then keep the default setting, Prevent PCs listed from accessing the wireless network. If you want to allow specific wireless-equipped PCs to communicate with the Router, then click the radio button next to Permit only PCs listed to access the wireless network. 2. Click the Edit MAC Filter List button. Enter the appropriate MAC addresses into the MAC fields. Note: For each MAC field, the MAC address should be entered in this format: xxxxxxxxxxxx (the x's represent the actual characters of the MAC address). 3. Click the Save Settings button to save your changes. Click the Cancel Changes button to cancel your unsaved changes. Click the Close button to return to the Advanced Wireless screen without saving changes. Not sure if that answered your question. But all these settings are on the LAN/Wireless side of the Router, NOT the WAN side of the Router which is the side that needs to communicate with the WiFi Access Point out in the WOLRD....... When using this router as a BRIDGE, to bring WiFi onboard...... |
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WiFi at Sea (technical, sorry)
You wrote in news:You-42B0C5.10130229122006
@netnews.worldnet.att.net: But all these settings are on the LAN/Wireless side of the Router, NOT the WAN side of the Router which is the side that needs to communicate with the WiFi Access Point out in the WOLRD....... When using this router as a BRIDGE, to bring WiFi onboard...... Skip's situation must have been in my head at Best Buy tonight. I was looking through the 802.11N new toys and there sat one of those Linksys WRE54G ver 3-US "Range Expanders" I found interesting. If I'm disappointed, I can take it back within 30 days, so no loss. My interest is to extend the range of my Netgear SPH101 Skype wifi phone when signals are marginal because the little phone has an internal antenna. I shut down my access-point-in-a-plastic-bucket 50' up the tree in my yard so only the Netgear router in the house will be online. I plugged the little Range Extender into a drop cord I leave in my yard and sat it atop my car with its little plastic antenna sticking up. The quick instructions tell you to press the Auto-Configure button on the side for 5 seconds which sets it to looking for an unsecured AP to connect to. The power light blinks red/blue until it find one, and turns blue when it connects itself and has a live link. Another blue light, Activity, is solid on until data flows through the box, then it winks off for packets so you can tell data's going through the repeater. It took about 5 seconds to logon to my unprotected W4CSC main router, a Netgear MIMO G box. The two lights were blue. Before I turned it on, I noted on my little Netgear wifi Skype phone I had 32% (2 bars) of signal out by the car. After it logged on, without reconnecting to anything, I had full scale by the car! I called Skype Call Test's number and walked up the street testing the connection and range. Without the tree router outside, the range from the main router is about 50 ft outside the house. With the 50' router and this little Range Extender on top of the car, I walked up the street 8 houses to the top of the hill and Skype didn't drop until I couldn't see the car any more...line of sight, of course. The thing works! Oddly, it seems to assume the identity of the router it's repeating and the Skype phone, at least, seems to not notice when its signal has been hijacked by it. My plan is to run it on the car, tomorrow, at some marginal open hotspots to see how much better my Skype Phone will work in the marginal restaurants, a good test of its capability. The only thing I'll have to do, manually, is to plug its AC cord into the little 100W inverter in the car and manually do an Auto Configure before I leave the car for it to find new open friends to connect to in the new location. That seemed to work fine on the way home and, quite hilariously, I noted before I forced it to look again to find my home router, Tmobile SSID was on the air from it, left over from the restaurant I was fooling with it on the way home. Might be a solution for some.....but it's only +15dbm output. I don't know how you're going to Auto Configure from the bottom of a mast on a yacht. Maybe cycling its AC power off then on will make it hunt again. I'll check that, but I don't think that will work from the T-mobile it remembered on the way home.... -- http://www.epic.org/privacy/rfid/verichip.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VeriChip http://www.verichipcorp.com/ Tracked like a dog, every license/product/tax. Revelation 13:16 And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads: 17 and that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name... |
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WiFi at Sea (technical, sorry)
On Fri, 29 Dec 2006 23:25:55 -0500, Larry wrote:
I don't know how you're going to Auto Configure from the bottom of a mast on a yacht. Maybe cycling its AC power off then on will make it hunt again. I'll check that, but I don't think that will work from the T-mobile it remembered on the way home.... What is needed is way to configure via an ethernet connection (at the bottom of the mast of course). |
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Wayne.B wrote in
: What is needed is way to configure via an ethernet connection (at the bottom of the mast of course). Without the wireless router at the bottom of the mast becoming too friendly with the bridge at the top of the mast...(c; -- http://www.epic.org/privacy/rfid/verichip.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VeriChip http://www.verichipcorp.com/ Tracked like a dog, every license/product/tax. Revelation 13:16 And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads: 17 and that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name... |
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WiFi at Sea (technical, sorry)
On Sat, 30 Dec 2006 09:44:37 -0500, Larry wrote:
Wayne.B wrote in : What is needed is way to configure via an ethernet connection (at the bottom of the mast of course). Without the wireless router at the bottom of the mast becoming too friendly with the bridge at the top of the mast...(c; I'm guessing that the correct sequence of events would be to disconnect the bottom router, connect a PC to the ethernet cable, configure the top bridge, acquire an access point, unplug the PC and replace with the bottom router. The bottom router could be preconfigured to use a different channel than the connected access point. |
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WiFi at Sea (technical, sorry)
Wayne.B wrote in
: I'm guessing that the correct sequence of events would be to disconnect the bottom router, connect a PC to the ethernet cable, configure the top bridge, acquire an access point, unplug the PC and replace with the bottom router. The bottom router could be preconfigured to use a different channel than the connected access point. I'm going to take a dropcord to Lionheart, tomorrow, with a waterproof ditty bag because it might rain. I'll take the Skype Phone and this repeater and haul the repeater up the mast on a halyard trailing a 110VAC drop cord to power it. We'll see how that works. This box weighs nothing. -- http://www.epic.org/privacy/rfid/verichip.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VeriChip http://www.verichipcorp.com/ Tracked like a dog, every license/product/tax. Revelation 13:16 And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads: 17 and that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name... |
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WiFi at Sea (technical, sorry)
On Sat, 30 Dec 2006 20:07:32 -0500, Larry wrote:
I'm going to take a dropcord to Lionheart, tomorrow, with a waterproof ditty bag because it might rain. I'll take the Skype Phone and this repeater and haul the repeater up the mast on a halyard trailing a 110VAC drop cord to power it. We'll see how that works. This box weighs nothing. It doesn't look like it has an antenna jack. That could turn it into a very useful device on my boat. |
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WiFi at Sea (technical, sorry)
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Larry wrote: Wayne.B wrote in : I'm guessing that the correct sequence of events would be to disconnect the bottom router, connect a PC to the ethernet cable, configure the top bridge, acquire an access point, unplug the PC and replace with the bottom router. The bottom router could be preconfigured to use a different channel than the connected access point. I'm going to take a dropcord to Lionheart, tomorrow, with a waterproof ditty bag because it might rain. I'll take the Skype Phone and this repeater and haul the repeater up the mast on a halyard trailing a 110VAC drop cord to power it. We'll see how that works. This box weighs nothing. Hey Larry, why not take it apart, and see what the internal DC Powersupply runs at? Maybe you could adapt it to 12Vdc or some Low Voltage Dc Powered system, and while your in there, look and see it you could adapt an external antenna, or connector to the antenna port. Bruce in alaska -- add a 2 before @ |
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