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C1000/3x00 General discussions / Adding A 802.11b To 802.11g

« on: May 26, 2006, 02:40:20 pm »

miloo: read about WDS (Wireless Distribution System) where few AP work with same essid and settings - you will make one G-only and second B-only.
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The problem with WDS is it works by making both routers act as repeaters.  Any traffic one receives, it sends to the other.  Having B clients degrades performance on a G network, so performance will always be degraded because the two routers are always going to be repeating to each other.  This rather defeats the original poster's purpose of having a seperate network so as not to degrade the G network's speed.

You'd want to link both AP's to a wired network instead, and make sure they are using different frequencies (and SSIDs) so they don't interfere with each other.

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C1000/3x00 Hardware / Planex Cf11x On C3100

« on: May 26, 2006, 02:27:58 pm »

Hello,
I have a sl c3100 with cacko 1.23 running smoothly on it.  I bought a Planex gw-cf11x for wireless networking, and I have some problems setting up:
the card is obviously recognized by the ROM when plugged in ("New card...")
when pressed connect in the Network Panel, the card sometimes starts to blink (when I am lucky, say one chance out of 10), but the result is allways the same: "Network offline", even if the zaurus is actually sitting on the computer.

Double and triplecheck your settings.  I had the same problem after I upgraded to Cacko (was working fine on the Sharp rom) and thought something was wrong.  Eventually I realized I had the capitalization wrong on the SSID.  Doh!  Don't forget it is case sensitive.

Also, using the SSID ANY option in the network settings didn't work for me on the sharp ROM, but specifying the SSID name as "any" did.  I haven't needed to do that yet on Cacko so I don't know if it's still the same, but probably is.

Also as other have suggested, unplug and replug your card after the zaurus is on.