upgraded broadband wireless router
I bought a trendnet wireless router recently from CompUSA. Besides it is only four five dollars after mail-in rebates, I have some desperate needs to replace my existing Netgear MR814v2 wireless router.
- It seems that Netgear has no intention whatsoever to add support of WPA on MR814v2. Desperate people on the Net attempted to apply MR814v3 firmware to it in order to gain WPA functionality and had failed miserably. I don’t have the time or skill to add WPA support based on the open-source firmware provided by Netgear. Nobody else does either
- Both wireless routers have four regular Ethernet jacks (RJ-45). When I bought the Netgear MR814v2 in 2002 or 2003, I thought four ports would be plenty. Only recently I come one port short. I dropped Bellsouth land line in favor of a VoIP service. The VoIP adapter requires one port. So does the Fedora Core 6 (FC6) server hosting this blog. My wife’s desktop and mine need one each. Since both desktop computers are in the same study as the wireless router, it would be kinda silly to do wireless. Besides, nobody with good sense would trust WEP. So, all four LAN ports were taken.
- I brought a IBM thinkpad T60 home from work. The company just started BPM (Business Process Management) certification process, so I need to get online with the company’s laptop more often than I’d like. The cable swapping routine got old pretty fast.
The upgrade to the new Trendnet wireless router went smoothly in most part. All is well, except CISCO IPSec VPN client won’t work off the wireless connection on the laptop. Same CISCO VPN client works fine on my desktop with a regular 3com NIC.
Too sleepy now, I’ll test tomorrow whether the CISCO VPN client would work on laptop with a regular Intel Pro 1000 NIC.
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