On Thu, 22 Jun 2006 09:02:41 -0400 (EDT), Stanley Sidlov wrote:
>...
> Also, at $50/unit, it may be cheaper than buying several wireless
>cards/nics and supports 4 computers with wires.
>
>Also, since it's G wireless, you can use better encryption, and the clients can be hard
>wired to the router box rather than using the weaker WEP encryptions.
Ah, until you said that I hadn't realised that you can use it to relay a WiFi signal to *cabled* PCs - I
thought you meant it was just for repeating the radio signal to other WiFi-equipped PCs! Now that would be a
very handy thing to do...
>But, I have found with 6 computers, that having a Gigabyte SWITCH attached to the WRT for
>the wired computers, makes the WRT much more stable since the intranet load is reduced.
That's interesting - I imagine the switching behaviour takes processor cycles that otherwise can be used for
WiFi activity. Not something I would ever considered.
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