Re: seeking some goodwill... WET11 talk, Cables, WET11 v2 suck%

	I mentioned in another post you must have missed what one of the 
things I used it for was.  I made a battery pack w/4 AA NIMH 
rechargeable batteries to use with it & would throw it in my laptop bag 
w/my 12" p'book & a zip-linq ethernet cable.  Then I'd sit at my 
favorite local coffeeshop & surf the open APs.  Had a Senao card in 
there so it was a great performer.

	Bought one WET11 at Comp-USA(place is terrible) it's a version 2 
though, easily identified by the name Cisco located discreetly on the 
box.  It's terrible doesn't pick up anything, build quality seems worse 
than the original.  This uses a different weaker stock radio & even has 
a smaller antenna.  The web interface is useless tried three browsers 
w/no ability to load the config page or use, finally tried IE(surprised 
it was on my machine) & that worked, but the page loaded w/ garbled 
graphics.  The firmware was from Spring of this(last year '04) pretty 
current & of course to upgrade you need to use a Windows .exe file not 
handy on OSX.  On the box it states it's cross platform & will be happy 
w/anything w/ethernet, what a load.  I'm hoping I don't get hit w/a 
restocking fee as the product did definitely not perform at as 
promised.  At least I've been happy with Linksys's WRT54G & GS.

	I bought one on ebay today for $45 after missing 2 or 3 wet11 auctions 
that closed at under $20 within the last day or two.  I just finally 
got a great setup w a 13db outdoor panel antenna that's actually pretty 
small about 8"x 8" x 1.7".  Seems to work great tried it w/my mom's 
ibook... pigtail snaked under the keypad the panel antenna duct taped 
to back of screen, much better results than with my cantenna's good 
gain, but very directional.

	I purchased the cables & antenna from fab-corp.com, received the items 
really quickly(2-3 days) packed well, & everything of high quality.  I 
purchased some LMR-400 N male to male cables, have relized since that 
in one case at least I need a Male to Female cable, anywhere locally I 
can order some adaptors(RP-TNC to SMA & such) & gender changers.  I was 
told for the N connector I can order from Radio Shack not positive 
about their goods quality.


On Jan 9, 2005, at 9:24 PM, Glenn A. Bookout wrote:

> Crispin:
>
>    Thanks for the BAWUG note about Mac parts and services, we might 
> avail ourselves of them sometime.
>
>    Sent the below to you on the 23/Dec, but you might have missed it 
> in the holiday rush.
>
>    Any suggestions?
>
>    Thanks for your time and help in these matters.
>
> Glenn
>
> Begin forwarded message:
>
>> From: Glenn A. Bookout <[email protected]>
>> Date: December 23, 2004 11:15:23 PST
>> To: Crispin <[email protected]>
>> Subject: [BAWUG] seeking some goodwill from the BAWUG community
>>
>> Crispin:
>>
>>    Sorry to hear about your loss of the 12" PB and other items.
>>
>>> my modified Linksys WET11
>>    I too have a 12" PB and was wondering what you used the WET11 for? 
>>  To increase the range of the PB's somewhat anemic antenna setup?
>>
>>    I notice that the WET11 is a bridge.  What I'm looking for is a ( 
>> hopefully ) inexpensive bridge that I can use wirelessly ( i.e.: no 
>> ethernet cords, etc. ) to boost my range and connect to one of the 
>> SFLAN setups near my apt. in S. F.  I would like to be able to put 
>> the bridge in my window, have it connect to SFLAN, then access the 
>> bridge from elsewhere in the apt. where the SFLAN signal is much 
>> weaker, or non-existant.
>>
>>    Any suggestions would be appreciated.
>>
>>    Thanks for your time and help in this matter.  And good luck on 
>> recovering your PB!
>>
>> Glenn
>


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