[smartBridges] avoiding hassles

[Zathras' Lackey]

I have an airBridge Outdoor hooked, through 220' of coax, to an Apple 
Airport Extreme in the house.  I'm using the 1.43 simpleMonitor.  When 
I want to check the connection, check signal level, re-associate, 
whatever, I need to disconnect the Ethernet coax from the Airport, 
connect it to one of the Windows machines (reconfigured for the 
192.168.xxx.xxx subnet), and run simpleMonitor.  Once done, I connect 
the coax back to the Airport, reconfigure the PC for the Airport 
subnet, and go.  Kind of a nuisance.  I also considered setting up a 
different subnet on the Airport but its options aren't adequate.

I have considered reconfiguring the airBridge with a 10.0.1.201 IP 
address that matches the Airport's subnet, and is outside the Airport's 
DHCP range, so I can do the aforementioned without the hassle.  I can 
avoid that hassle by running the 1.5x simpleMonitor but I get frequent 
dropped connections when I install that.  I'd rather have the 1.42 
hassles than the 1.5x hassles.

Can you think of any problems I might buy myself reconfiguring the 
airBridge?  Is there any other setting that should change besides the 
IP address?



TIA

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