Mailing List os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com Archived Message #6700

From:	"Lewis G Rosenthal" <os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com>	Full Headers Undecoded message
Subject:	Re: [OS2Wireless] Wireless router
Date:	Thu, 25 Mar 2010 10:40:54 -0400
To:	OS/2 Wireless Users Mailing List <os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com>

Hi, Greg... On 03/25/10 02:08 am, chekmarx thus wrote : Just as a point of reference, touching on Lewis's lack of experience with DLink wireless routers: When I needed to go wireless due to the location of the router relative to where my system was at my nephew kindly purchased for me a DLink rather than LinkSys router, which is the brand I've used to great success in the past. Not wanting to hurt his feelings and come off as a jerk, something which I do enough of :-) LOL! Doesn't hurt my feelings at all. Full disclosure is good for the soul. Unlike what I tell my kids, I really *don't* know everything, which was one of the reasons I started hosting these lists in the first place (yes, the list is free of all paid advertising support, and while I do get a decent pickup of new clients from keeping my name "out there," over the years, I have gleaned far more value from the information exchanged - aside from getting my own questions answered - than I could possibly value monetarily). Thanks to *everyone* who contributes *whatever* he or she knows and for sharing his or her experience, for which there is truly *no* substitute. I'm glad to hear that the D-Link boxes have worked for you. Any particular models you'd like to recommend? are you using the stock firmware, or have you flashed it? I was a tad leery George Carlin, on his AM/FM album, made reference to Dr. Timothy Leary's brother, Really Leary... I suppose when the Doctor was a boy, he may have been a tad Leary, too... (Sorry; too much work makes me punchy...) at first since my wired LinkSys router ran flawlessly, but after setting up the DLink I've never had the need to touch it again. And it is on and operational 24/7 for going on nearly two-years now. Which IMO isn't too bad at all. That's a good record. I'm guessing that you have it connected to some power conditioning or battery backup, and not raw current, and that your broadband connection is similarly unlikely to introduce any jolts or brownouts into the connections. Sometimes I think it is *where* the router is located that cause so many failures - meaning people I know tend to bury them with paper and books and disks and so on. Not having sufficient air-flow then causes them to overheat and die as Lewis states. LOL! Indeed, people do strange things with these little devices. They truly are toasters, sort of like the little old NetWare 3 server still hiding in a closet, under a bunch of files. Nobody seems to know where drive Q: actually "lives," because it just happens to be there all the time... Meanwhile, the 486 server is running with only the power supply fan cooling it off, and dust blocking all the air ducts. By a stroke of luck, nothing has bumped the front panel to turn it off (assuming the power switch even works anymore)... Little routers are indeed following that same path in so many places. I love the blank look I get when walking into a new office for the first time and asking where the Wi-Fi originates. Just wanted to toss this out there ... Thanks! <snip> -- Lewis ------------------------------------------------------------- Lewis G Rosenthal, CNA, CLP, CLE Rosenthal & Rosenthal, LLC www.2rosenthals.com Need a managed Wi-Fi hotspot? www.hautspot.com visit my IT blog www.2rosenthals.net/wordpress -------------------------------------------------------------

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