August 12, 2007 in the wee hours
· Filed under broadband router, live journal, netgear, networking, site_news, technology, trendnet
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
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February 9, 2007 around lunchtime
· Filed under WAP, blackberry, netgear, wireless router
This morning I started to configure yet another Netgear WGR614v6 wireless router (WAP) for a customer site. As experienced as I am with Netgear wireless routers, I opt to run neither the installation CD nor the setup wizard. I hooked up my laptop to one of the four RJ-45 ports on the router, then pointed Firefox to “www.routerlogin.net/start.htm”.
Everything works fine except:
- I had to power cycle the unit when I changed the subnet for the LAN. simple “ipconfig /renew” on the laptop picked up old subnet range.
- wireless radio is disabled and no obvious way to turn it on. The check-box was shadowed. Wireless options can be configured just fine, such as SSID/WPA-PSK/channel. Read the rest of this entry »
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