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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: S-99 on August 28, 2007, 04:42:50 am
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The damn things give you awesome range. It's not about the N1 standard they sport. They have really nice range and speed. After that, i use to like the front lights and diagrams on the front as being extremely informational for what's going on with the router by just looking at it.
But, the ****ing lights are bogus. The wireless light comes on sometimes, and off most of the time. I can go into the configuration and have wireless capability turned on, and that damn wireless light won't come on. The damn thing can kiss my ass. I setup a motel wide wireless network with 3 of these. And i've had them do wireless tons of times with the wireless lights not being lit up on any of them :lol: But, now the wireless is down, and i have no laptop with wireless capability to inspect the mother****ing problem. So right now idk if the wireless light not being on is telling the truth or not. ****ing-a, i don't even have a laptop i can borrow from a friend to test this **** out. I originally worked on this project with my friend who had a laptop who lives in a different city. I'm bent on going insane finding out whether or not to just trust what the router configuration tells me based on how i set it up, and then i'd know for sure to always ignore the ****ing status lights on these routers. Or whether or not these are bad products. I won't know until later any of this ****. Not my problem if they are bad products, the motel bought wireless routers completely ignoring me when i told them i'd give them the go ahead as to which wireless routers they should buy. I was going to have them get some linksys wrt54gl routers, but noooo, next day when i was going to tell them what to get, they come in with these things that are odd to say the least right now. POS damn i need a laptop.
i don't care if the belkin wireless light is incorrect or not, i can work around that, it's just that...imperative status lights like that should be CORRECT!!!!
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i don't care if the belkin wireless light is incorrect or not, i can work around that, it's just that...imperative status lights like that should be CORRECT!!!!
Two things.
First is, yes I agree the lights should work.
And Second, take a chill pill, or a suicide pill, or just go out and get it replaced\buy a new one.
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Well it's really stupid the people i work for. They'll start *****ing at me if i tell them they have to go and buy new routers because these ones work like ****. If these routers don't work like they're supposed to this next time. Then i'll tell them to get some new ones.
EDIT: nevermind. I figured out the stupid problem. All it took was some thinking. The status lights on the belkin n1 wireless routers are correct and work fine in telling you the truth. The whole wireless network i setup works fine in fact. Everything i set up works fine. Why would everything configured to work just great all of a sudden stop? Well that would mean someone would have had to hop into each router and change the configuration. With the administrative passwords i put on all of those things and with remote configuration disabled no one but me can change the configuration. So everything with the good configuration still has the good configuration. The isp they use is in question. The isp they use in this small town is implementing some major changes in the past month that it's been working dodgy at my house too, and it's working just as dodgy at this hotel i setup the network for. Pretty much i don't need to touch ****. Just got to wait for the isp finish doing it's changes for smooth net surfing all around. So all i did was type up a whole bunch of documents to "sailor proof" the equipment. So that no one resets any of the routers, and doesn't change their configurations. Documents that say what each piece of hardware does, what to do if the internet doesn't work by power recycling the equipment, checking the lights, and calling the isp for tech support for their equipment they put into the motel. Pretty much made a how-to manual and graphical diagrams for where everything is on the property.
Sailor proofing was the manager's way of saying, i want stuff labelled very obviously, diagrams for locations of ****, papers for what to do, and papers for what not to do. Belkin n1 wireless routers are great, if i were to get a wireless router, i'd definitely get one of those. The ones in use i've found to be about as good as linksys routers. The only downside is that they only let you set them up as n/g/b mixed wireless broadcasting. But, that's not a bad thing in this case for a motel where clients will mostly be using the g standard and less often the b, and maybe the n standard since that one is very new.
I feel better and will take my chill pill now Charismatic after finding out that i can successfully set up a wireless network with encryption by myself and very basically configure a firewall for it too. Blocking ports :nervous: i need to learn how to do that. I still wish i had the linksys wrt54gl routers. Those things have opensource firmware called tomato where you can do literally anything you want with them, in particular setting up internet access peramaters like have 90% of the bandwidth for surfing the net and 10% for whatever else. I wouldn't really need to block ports then if i can just make WOW and other online games go really slow for customers since gamers should not be hogging the bandwidth over there. :lol: