In the spirit of the recent "Raccoons under the deck" thread
I wish to report a back alley encounter which may or may not
be unusual -- you tell me.
A few blocks down there is a friendly little cat which has

Last September I bought a Medion laptop with wireless LAN. I linked it up
with a Linksys WAG160N router.
Right from the start I had problems with initial connection to the internet.
The router is always on but when I re-booted the laptop it rarely connected

Jeff (or others if they know) can you take a look at these test reports
and give me a better idea of which of these units will most likely
bring in the most stable; best signal on a  802.11b old desktop? Have
already checked OS support for these radios, but I don't have the

Is Jeff on vacation. This group is pretty worthless as he is the only
one who provides any good answers here.

I'm cleaning up an old laptop (a Toshiba Portege) to give away to a
friend who needs one, mainly just for web browsing.  I have Windows 2000
Pro on it, and it seems to run reasonably well (ok, don't laugh :(), and
 I want to provide a (preferably 11g) WIFI PCMCIA card with it, ...

Open-source firmware vulnerability exposes wireless routers
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/07/21/critical_ddwrt_router_vuln/
List of devices with problem.
http://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/Supported_Devices

Some sites I log into will show the lock icon in Internet Explorer as
soon as the site comes up. Others show the lock icon only after
logging in.
Is it safe to assume that on a public hotspot such as in a hotel that

I have a computer with XP SP2 that loses the sharing almost every time that
an update is received from Microsoft. It is networked with a Vista Home
Premium 64 computer that is hard wired to the router. The Vista machine has
no problems but the XP machine loses the permissions in ...

It's only taken the best part of decade, but 802.11n Wi-Fi looks
  finally like becoming a standard this coming September.
MORE:
http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2009/07/22/new_standard_for_old_wi_fi/

Is there a device that is not a router that connects to a wired router
(via a cat 5 cable) and provides a wireless 802.11g access point?
What is the name of the device.  I want to search for one to buy but I
don't recall the name.

For the mostpart logging into a hotel's WiFi network is a simple
affair and it frequently just automatically connects as soon as firing
up my laptop. Sometimes I have to find any available networks and
request a connection. No problem!

I have been using what I think is a public AP that one of my
neighbors turned me on to.
Was working fine, then suddently I am getting d/c from the unencrypted
network. Changing the mac address got me back on several times and then

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OK, I didn't destroy this panel antenna. I managed to rip off the
radome and should be able to glue (RTV) it back together.
The patches measure 70.5mm x 61mm. They are spaced center to center by

Doing some routine maintanance I removed my wireless internet connection.
Computer is Compaq Presario V6000 Laptop
The connection I removed is the built in wireless connection.
I can connect with a USB adapter on a different connection.

I have a broadcom/gemtek wireless card and I can't seem to change the
mac address that it uses. I've tried the manual 'enter in a number
into the locally administered address section' method. and I've also
tried the technitium software package. The first method allows me to