I just bought one of the new WRT54GTX wireless routers and frankly I am not impressed with the documentation that came with it. There is a CD, a warranty card, one sheet with 9 FAQ trouble shooting questions on it, and that is it. The CD didnt work so I had to call tech support who refered me to a website that had an automated setup program. That worked and the systen is up and running but now I realy dont know how to manualy go in and change any of the settings or even access the LinkSys internal menu. I like the way the hardware works but the documentation sure could use some improvement.
On the CD there is a manual. After poking around I found the address, and password of the routers internal program. I needed to change the password from the default and set a few other features. I should have looked at the CD more closely before yapping off about it.
I really like the performance of this 11G with its multi-path signal system as compared to the other 11b wireless router I had.
But now after reading all the stories about war driving and such I am thinking about going Ethernet hardwire. Not that I have anything of great value on my computers ... certainly nothing I could not live without ... and I really don't mind if someone drops in and uses the connection to get to the internet ... I just don't want the hassle that some malicious hacker could cause ... and we all know there is a few of them out there.
I sold my PC laptop and replaced it with a new iMac G5 and I really like it. There is only one program I need that runs on the PC format and that is BobCad for making CNC control files ... so I guess there will always be at least one PC around here.
The iMac will network with the PC computer just fine but I haven't had any luck in getting the PC to see anything on the iMac hard drive yet. Most likely do to my overall ignorance of networking PC's and Mac's.
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