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
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.
