Compatibility issues between wg511v2 and Belkin Pre_N Wireless Router?

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Interesting...Sounds like a job for a wireless protocol analyzer. There is one called Linkferret at

supports the Netgear ma401 and the Orinoco Golds. It has a 30 day free evaluation. I would install it on a laptop to monitor what is going on when a netgear wg511v2 tries to connect. You have the option to turn off beacon capture but should capture a few to a file. Then capture the card trying to authenticate and associate with the belkin. To keep it simple only have one device being captured. You can save these captures (detailed reports) in html or text and if you have someplace to stick them on the web we could have a look or maybe you could attach them to the group. No promises, but it sounds like the only way to see whats happening since wireless is invisible.

Airhead,

Thanks for the idea/link to 'linkferret.ws'. I will see about liberating or purchasing another of the new Routers/APs and setting up a test site to see about capturing the traffic from the cards. Right now there is just too much wireless traffic in our environment to try and just expose and capture the data from just one card, so I may have to set this up at home were I can control the amount of chatter from other APs.

As well for you and anyone else who want to jump in until I get this data captured I am open to other ideas.

As an aside: Wireless is catching on in the residential non-IT professional/tech junkie users, pre holidays there were two APs in my neighborhood (mine and the guy next door from who works for SBC on their VoIP network), now in the last three days there are more than ten displayed, which means getting quiet places to test is going to get tougher. I am not even going to tackle the lack of basic security being implemented on all of these new APs.

Thanks again,

BurntEnd

Airhead,

Thanks for the previous ideas.

Turns out that none of the run of the newer Netgear cards we purchased could connect to any of our sites that ran 'g' only and all had intermittent issues with the combo protocol APs. A little more testing (complaints to me from our support staff) found that there were issues with all sites using these cards be it on the 'b' or 'g' side of things, including but not limited to dropped connections when connected, no connection at all. Transmitter/freq issue on this run of cards? I had to make the decision that our tracking down the cause of the problem did not fit our budget as our vendor was willing to replace all the questionable cards as being defective. Although they (our vendor) did not indicate it to us (we are a small account to them), through a friendly rep via one of our partners (very large Fortune 100 company, that invested in us) indicated that they are hearing from several customers that there are issues with their newly purchased cards of the same make/model.

So as of now we have returned the lot and replaced with other cards, so I will not be testing the issue mentioned in the previous posts. Thanks again for your interest and suggestions,

BurntEnd