Home Networking .. Router and Airport? — #8

Post #8 by zorn

Source Forum	Home Networking .. Router and Airport? — #8
Category	Networking
Post Date	Thu, 29 Aug 2002 - 13:04
Original URL	https://web.archive.org/web/20050522130107/https://forums.macnn.com/showthread.php?t=120840

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Originally posted by ringo:
I use a linksys 4 port router/switch combo to do exactly what you are describing.

The orig 802.11 card I was trying to get to work was a linksys product. It took them months to come out with XP drivers, then when they did it came with instructions like:

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Windows will notify you that the driver has not passed Windows logo testing. Since this product has been tested to work with Windows XP, click the Continue Anyway button.

Not surprisingly it never worked, and since it so long to try the store didn't take back the equipment (card and PCI adaptor) .. $200 down the drain

I asked my friend (a PC hardware guru) about it and he comments on related flakiness of his own linksys 802.11 stuff.

And finally, why does linysys make you use a proprietary config tool when XP has 802.11 built in?!?!

Saficly(sp?) to say, I will not be purchasing nor recommending any Linksys products anymore ...

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