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Originally Posted by dgstinner
I can get a 2Wire Home Portal 100W that we've had lying around where I work for the last few years. I plugged it in to make sure it would at least turn on and found out it's apparently made by Proxim (at least that's what NetStumber claimed as the vendor when I ran it). I also noticed WEP is on by default it seems. I was reading the owner's manual for it and it seems like this device can be used as a AP, router, or a bridge. Is that correct? Is it worth me taking this? I have an old compaq pc running Red Hat 7.3 that I can hook up to the 2Wire, if it can be used as a bridge, and run Kismet to try and detect other people running NetStumbler.
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2Wire 100Ws are a good unit. They originally ran about $499. A good friend has had one going 24/7/365 on his home network for the last 3 years. The one thing I don't like about them is the overly-user-friendly (dumbed-down) setup routine. It is very restrictive. It wouldn't do that I think of as basics (like port based blocking), at least in the firmware my friend has on his unit.
The internal card is a ORiNOCO Mini-PCI.