blackwave

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

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lincomatic

i think the SMC wireless barricade is the same thing as the D-Link DI-713p....seem to remember reading about it somewhere before.
the setup screens look a helluva lot like my SMC wired barricade.
has a lot of nice features but i can't figure out how to turn off the diversity ckt so i can just hook up 1 antenna and dlink tech support sucks. also, even though it has those 2 antennae on the outside the orinoco RG-1100 (which just has a Gold card inside) kicks its ass in terms of range. my friend found the dlink/usr2410 combo completely unuseable in his house...only about 20ft away from the AP (he has an old house...seems to block radio pretty bad). but the orinoco/orinoco combo works all the way to the street. the dlink runs faster w/ WEP on, though.

btw excuse my naivete but what the heck does PEBChk mean?

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blackwave

Problem
Exists
Between
Chair &
Keyboard

It was a code word used to describe a situation covertly to another person in the know about a newbie, in front of the newbie.

usage in context:
... yeah, it sure looks like a PEBChK to me ...

Phonetically pronounced:
PEBB-CHECK

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lincomatic

haha that's good. well some guy i bumped into at microcenter said pebchk was why there were so many WAP11's in the discount bin...ppl would take them home who never heard of a crossover cable and think it was defective.

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blackwave

Yes, that is how it usually works... I think we coined the word there while in dialogs with the technicians and it just spread like wildfire. Good to see it is still being used

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pmn929

Also, you can't forget about the "Sounds like an ID-10-T to me."

fitzStewart

My favourite code has alway been the UBD error

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