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I think the issue was whether the router supports WPS for the setup process or not.

Generally, if you see a button somewhere on the router with the letters WPS next to it, it does, otherwise it doesn't .

More about WPS: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wi-Fi_Protected_Setup

(BTW, the article mentions several different modes of operation, I wasn't aware of any other than the push-button one, number 2, so that's what I was referring to above.)

Best regards,

Niels

Well I am on my second eBay bid war hopefully more successful this time.

nbache wrote:I think the issue was whether the router supports WPS for the setup process or not.

I believe it does, as I set up a tablet the other day and I noticed it said something like "supports WPS" next to my SSID.

I never use WPS (don't trust it, don't understand it, and it's easy enough just to tap my password in) so I can't say whether it works or doesn't work.

chris wrote:I never use WPS (don't trust it, don't understand it, and it's easy enough just to tap my password in)

True. I only ever used it this once, to set up the WNCE-2001. Normally I also just set things up myself, but I had some problems initially with getting this one to connect (turned out to be me not having RTFM well enough), so I tried the WPS function just to see if it went better. And it did, and was surprisingly simple to use too, so at least for me the feature was a success.

Best regards,

Niels

Right I am all set up now with the WNCE2001, however the signal strength isn't too great so instead I have it working off my tethered phone. =)

djrikki wrote:I assume that device needs no special drivers as it takes care of everything.

Yes, but its very sad there is no visual indication of Wi Fi signal or being connected to the net overall within the OS.
That must not be hard to do and is about time.

vox wrote:

djrikki wrote:I assume that device needs no special drivers as it takes care of everything.

Yes, but its very sad there is no visual indication of Wi Fi signal or being connected to the net overall within the OS.
That must not be hard to do and is about time.

You mean, like this?

Hans

zzd10h wrote:If you can't wait,

try that,it works well, an external ethernet/wifi adapter :

NetGear WNCE-2001.
http://www.netgear.com/landing/wnce2001.aspx

Another option to consider is to reflash an old router with openwrt. This will alow you to configure the wireless in station mode, and if it has 4 network ports you can connect multiple machines, and use them at the same time.

Not all routers are supported though, and some require a little hardware hack to install the new firmware.

See here for more info:
http://openwrt.org

Regards
Darren

Hans wrote:You mean, like this?

I was working with Curtis Holborn and Neil Cafferkey a long time ago to get the SANA-II standard ironed out so that such tools are even possible. One could always just hack into the h/w directly but that didn't seem like the right way to do it.

I find people don't appreciate the amount of work involved in seemingly "simple" things.

Hans wrote:

vox wrote:

djrikki wrote:I assume that device needs no special drivers as it takes care of everything.

Yes, but its very sad there is no visual indication of Wi Fi signal or being connected to the net overall within the OS.
That must not be hard to do and is about time.

You mean, like this?

Hans

Yes, but that tool doesnt work with my newer prism2 device