RE: Cautionary Tale...

["Phil Harris" <phil@xxxxxxx>]

What's not funny is that I bought *2* of the NetGear WG602 Access Points
intending to use the second as a wireless bridge between the TiVo / SliMP3
downstairs and the main network upstairs but it doesn't support that
either!

This whole wireless networking thing is so bloody sketchy as to what is or
isn't supported that it's a damn nightmare trying to get kit that does teh
job you want...

...best thing of all is when I wanted to submit a tech support query on the
NetGear website you have to enter a serial number and model number of the
product - those are then checked against each other. Of course the WG602
wasn't listed in their list of models and the serial number failed
validation checks if I used a different model number instead! Hence - no
way
of submitting a support request!

Do you still have the firmware that you downloaded? Do you know whether it
works on the WG602?

Phil

> -----Original Message-----
> From: mailinglists@xxxxxxx [mailto:mailinglists@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: 30 December 2003 19:45
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: [ukha_d] Cautionary Tale...
>
>
> Ah, Phil, funny you should say that...
>
> I spent some time trying to find other makes of firmware that I could
> reflash my Netgear AP with so I could turn SSID Broadcasting off...
>
> I eventually found some software called 'ATMEL Utilities',
unfortuneatly
> can't remember where from. ATMEL I believe make the chipsets, the
software
> is the SNMP control for a wide range of WAP's. So it looks like the
> NetGear's support switching SSID Broadcasting off, but NetGear never
> implemented it.
>
> Load up the software, connect to your WAP over wired ethernet, uncheck
the
> box and click OK. Job done. :)
>
> Every bit of security helps...
>   -----Original Message-----
>   From: Phil Harris [mailto:phil@xxxxxxx]
>   Sent: 30 December 2003 15:09
>   To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
>   Subject: RE: [ukha_d] Cautionary Tale...
>
>
>
>   > http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/blog.asp?blogID=1214
>
>   Yup ... used to leave mine open and found a couple of kids who
> go to Henry
>   Beaufort School not far from me sitting the other side of my garden
wall
>   happily browsing away on a laptop.
>
>   I then changed my SSID and turned off SSID broadcasts on my Belkin
AP
> (which
>   did the trick) but I recently changed to a NetGear AP which
> doesn't appear
>   to have that option so I now restrict access by MAC address. :-(
>
>   Phil
>
>
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