X-Account-Key: account1 X-UIDL: 127185 X-Mozilla-Keys: Return-Path: X-ListServer: CommuniGate Pro LIST 5.1.3 List-Unsubscribe: List-ID: List-Archive: Precedence: list Message-ID: Reply-To: "OS/2 Wireless Users Mailing List" Sender: "OS/2 Wireless Users Mailing List" To: "OS/2 Wireless Users Mailing List" From: "Al Heath" Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2007 11:07:10 -0500 X-Original-Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: multipart/alternative; Boundary="0__=09BBF9FDDFC4B9C68f9e8a93df938690918c09BBF9FDDFC4B9C6" Subject: Re: [OS2Wireless] LinkSys WRT54G bridge help? --0__=09BBF9FDDFC4B9C68f9e8a93df938690918c09BBF9FDDFC4B9C6 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable Lothar wrote: >> I have currently a DSL WLAN up and running (but find the >> connections to be unreliable and flaky). Would the same (or similar)= >> setup be working with the Roadrunner cable modem? I am assuming that since you are posting on a wireless list, and that y= ou have 2 laptops, and that you already have a DSL connection, and that yo= ur subject lists help with a WRT54G (wireless router).... that you have th= is wireless router already and that your laptops go thru to get out onto y= our existing DSL. So, with that in mind... just plug the WAN port of the router into the cable modem standard ethernet port and power up the cab= le modem, then the router, then your laptops. Unless you've hard coded th= ings in your wireless router, the wireless router will pick up the new IP address and such via it's DHCP client request to RoadRunner, and if you= r laptops are picking up DHCP addresses from your router... all will be transparent. Now for the minor glitch... As Roadrunner is saying they support Windoz= e... it is probably from a end user initial activation script that they want= to install and add all sorts of stuff to a windoze 'puter. On the initial= activation, Roadrunner needs to know the MAC address of your cable mode= m but a simple call to customer service can get that set up and provision= ed without all the other crap they likely want to install "to enhance your= experience" . So, likely your only minor annoyance is the call to t= hem to say you are running "Linux" (so as to not overwhelm them) and need t= o have them provision your modem (for MAC address given on the cable mode= m box ... get the "right" one... the "normal" ethernet port and not the U= SB port mac address) for the initial account activation. Al H= --0__=09BBF9FDDFC4B9C68f9e8a93df938690918c09BBF9FDDFC4B9C6 Content-type: text/html; charset=US-ASCII Content-Disposition: inline Content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable

Lothar wrote:
>> I have currently a DSL WLAN up and running (but find the
>> connections to be unreliable and flaky). Would the same (o= r similar)
>> setup be working with the Roadrunner cable modem?
I am assuming that since you are posting on a wireless list, and th= at you have 2 laptops, and that you already have a DSL connection, and = that your subject lists help with a WRT54G (wireless router).... that y= ou have this wireless router already and that your laptops go thru to g= et out onto your existing DSL.  So, with that in mind... just plug= the WAN port of the router into the cable modem standard ethernet port= and power up the cable modem, then the router, then your laptops. &nbs= p;Unless you've hard coded things in your wireless router, the wireless= router will pick up the new IP address and such via it's DHCP client r= equest to RoadRunner, and if your laptops are picking up DHCP addresses= from your router... all will be transparent.  

Now for the minor glitch... As Roadrunner is saying they support Wi= ndoze... it is probably from a end user initial activation script that = they want to install and add all sorts of stuff to a windoze 'puter. &n= bsp;On the initial activation, Roadrunner needs to know the MAC address= of your cable modem but a simple call to customer service can get that= set up and provisioned without all the other crap they likely want to = install "to enhance your experience" <g>.  So, lik= ely your only minor annoyance is the call to them to say you are runnin= g "Linux" (so as to not overwhelm them) and need to have them= provision your modem (for MAC address given on the cable modem box ...= get the "right" one... the "normal" ethernet port = and not the USB port mac address) for the initial account activation.

Al H= --0__=09BBF9FDDFC4B9C68f9e8a93df938690918c09BBF9FDDFC4B9C6--