Re: [PLUG] Do you feel like you're a Linux dude(tte) in a 'Doze/Mac world?

[Lee Marzke <lee@marzke.net>]

On 01/18/2011 09:23 AM, Rich Freeman wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 9:12 AM, Carl Bullard<carlbullard@gmail.com>  wrote:
> > I'm not sure your issue is simply Linux related.  I have the ActionTec
> > at home and the wireless is horrible.  I've tried everything under the
> > sun and nothing seems to work.  My wireless drops randomly on my XP
> > laptop.  It's to the point go with a Linksys using DD-WRT or Tomato
> > just for my wireless.
> Yup, first thing I did when I got the router is disable the wireless
> on it - I'm still using an ancient linksys running dd-wrt.

My problem on my FIOS was that WIRED ethernet to the ActionTec did not 
work !   I never even
attempted WiFI.     Now how can wired work on Windows and not on Linux ?

Yes,  I did get a DHCP lease , IP,  DNS and Gateway.   But no traffic,  
and the
management interface of the Actiontec would no respond at all.

Yes, I know how to bypass this on my FIOS,  but I've got a few WiFi hotspots
that I can no longer use.   And of course reporting this to the WiFi shop is
useless as they see all their computers and WIndows users having no 
problems.

Lee

> I can't vouch for whether it is problematic - not supporting WPA was
> reason enough to ditch it for me.
>
> BTW, how can ANYBODY make a router these days that doesn't support
> WPA?  WEP is absolutely worthless from a security standpoint.  I
> wouldn't use WEP unless I put it behind a router and only allowed VPN
> traffic through (good luck getting consumer devices to work with that,
> however - maybe whitelist a few internet sites or something).
>
> Rich
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