I have Verizon DSL & they provided me with this cheap Westell
Versalink Model 327w DSL modem & wireless router & 4 port switch all
in one. I wanted to disable the router & switch & bridge the thing to
a Linksys WRT54g that I had already from my cable days but the
Westell POS won't run in bridge mode at all. I've spent literally
hours on the phone with VZ to which all they can really say is to
call Westell. Good luck as they have a answering machine & they never
return calls. The Westell wireless does support MAC locking but does
NOT support WPA. When I've used it's wireless I always had what I
considered suspicious traffic so I disabled it but am using the
router/switch part. I turned off DHCP on the WRT54g & plugged a line
from the Westell to the it from LAN port to LAN port & assigned the
WRT an ip of 192.168.1.100 then configured the wireless with WPA-PSK
& still locked it to the MAC of my laptop's WNIC. Everything works fine.
But [there's always a but] to complicate matters I can only get 70KB
download from the Westell to my main machine with a wired NIC when
it's set at 100tx or auto but when I set the NIC to 10tx my download
speed jumps up to 120KB avg. Needless to say this cuts down on the
speed of transferring files across the LAN from machine to machine. I
have a 5 port switch & an extra NIC built into my main machine but
none of my other machines have an extra NIC so I don't see how I can
boost my LAN performance. I've tried the Westell to the other builtin
NIC on my machine & the results are almost identical & fwiw they both
have the latest drivers. A couple of the machines have firewire 400
but didn't want to spend any more money on cables if I didn't have
to. Yes, I've been to Diane's favorite, Tom's Networking at
<http://www.timhiggins.com/> [What's up with tim vs tom?] &
http://practicallynetworked.com/ but have yet to find a workable solution.
Suggestions welcome. I wondered about instituting ICS thru my main
machine but that seems like such a shame especially when I have not 1
but 2 routers.
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Wayne D. Johnson
Ashland, OH, USA 44805
<http://www.wavijo.com>
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