At this page:
I'm looking for discussion that explains, as thoroughly as this page discusses the things it does, why certain wireless devices cannot talk to certain other wireless devices. Based on some explanations people have given me about why my two Netgear WGT624's will not talk to each other, it would see the above referenced page is wrong. Can someone explain this better?
Of course it would also be nice to have an online reference about the details of each model of wireless device NOT expressed in terms of the BS sales talk you get from the manufacturers, but expressed in consistent and unambiguous technical terminology.
Before I bought these two Netgear WGT624's, I should have done better research. But the after-the-fact research I'm doing now is NOT turning up anything that tells me these two would not talk to each other (e.g. to other instances of teh same model) ... other than the answer to my other thread that were posted here because I asked. What i want to know is what online resource should I have seen beforehand that would have explained this clearly. So far I can't find it.
In addition to the two Netgear WGT624's, I have an wireless device my sister-in-law got for free at some garage sale. It's a bridge. It even says so on the case. It has NO brand name, neither on the case nor on the admin web page. I got the MAC so maybe I can look it up from there but more than likely it will be some Chinese manufacturer I never heard of. Anyway, it is 802.11b only, and WEP only. Configuring the WGT624's to do "b" in addition to "g", and to do WEP instead of WPA, the bridge will communicate with ONE of the WGT624's, but not the other. Strange! Also, it won't communicate with the HP 6980 wireless printer when I change it to use WEP instead of WPA (the HP 6980 and WGT624 do talk OK when both are in WEP mode, so I know I got that set right).