I have two 802.11b cards and have enjoyed them, but today I was thinking to myself that I better start fiddling with my own. So I drove down the Fry's and examined their nice selection for a couple of hours... finally they were telling everyone over the intercom that they were closing and if anyone wanted anything to cattle their way up to the registers... moo... bahh.
I picked up the
Linksys BEFW11S4 Ver2 "Instant Broadband" EtherFast Wireless AP + Cable / DSL Router with 4-Port Switch.. and ran to the register. Through my two hours journey at Fry's I pondered over getting the SMC WAP, it had a built in wireless print server, and I am familiar with their products... but after reading the description it didn't appear to have all the features that the linksys did.. and I currently have 3 SMC routers that I do not use the wired print server.. and I wanted to try something new.... I was also tempted to get the 802.11a card and WAP, but after seeing the cards were around 150, and the APs around 400.. I knew I would end up buying the card before I got the AP (especially for DCX)... I almost got the WAP11, but for a few more bucks I could get more features than just an AP... Also I pondered over the Linksys VPN router.. I noticed that out of the 12 they had on the shelf 6 of them had the "This has been thoroughly checked out by a Fried Technician "-BS sticker...(This is one reason I like MicroCenter, at least they mark down returned product and put them in a nice bin).. I think they were returned due to
PEBChK so I think next time around I will pick one up, it was pretty cheap for a solid state vpn, and supports 70 simu channels.
Almost at the register I looked down and noticed the pictures looked funny.. then I looked at the model number and noticed it was the older version 1 model.. so I sighed and ran back and noticed that there were a lot of v1's.. so I started to scatter there shelf set up and found a few v2's in the back... the first v2 I grabbed had a "This has been checked out by a ... blah blah" sticker.. so I dug deeper and found 3
new ones.. I picked one and ran back up front...
So here i am... It is still in the box, I haven't slept in a few days.. and things are starting to talk to me... I ran out of
Barq's.. the only thing keeping me going is the 11pm showing of
STTNG on
The NEW TNN.. I think i may be too weak to pull back the plastic wrap and hook it into the current test network.. Anyway i will post any further findings here.. anyone else can do the same
