CompuUSA Wireless Router

Who makes the CompUSA 54 MBPS Wireless Router that is advertised in today's
circular for $2.99?

Thanks,
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Mike Schumann

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> Who makes the CompUSA 54 MBPS Wireless Router that is advertised in
> today's circular for $2.99?
>

Call CompUSA

Duane

"Mike Schumann" <mike-(E-Mail Removed)> hath wroth:

>Who makes the CompUSA 54 MBPS Wireless Router that is advertised in today's
>circular for $2.99?

Call the store. Ask them to read you the FCC ID number on the serial
number tag. Then go unto:
https://gullfoss2.fcc.gov/prod/oet/c...ericSearch.cfm
and inscribe the FCC ID number into the grantee and product code
boxes. That should bring up the relevent documents. If you slog
through the test report, you can usually get a clue as to who made it.
Also, the photos will show the chipset used.
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150 Felker St #D http://www.LearnByDestroying.com
Santa Cruz CA 95060 http://802.11junk.com
Skype: JeffLiebermann AE6KS 831-336-2558

FMI. Read the rebate form PDF.

"Mike Schumann" <mike-(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>Who makes the CompUSA 54 MBPS Wireless Router that is advertised in today's
>circular for $2.99?

Is it this one? http://fmi.compusa.com/driver.asp?SKU=333628

Firmware updates from FMI are few and far between, FWIW...

It's an outfit called Edimax Technology from Tawain.

Thanks,
Mike Schumann

"Jeff Liebermann" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> "Mike Schumann" <mike-(E-Mail Removed)> hath wroth:
>
>>Who makes the CompUSA 54 MBPS Wireless Router that is advertised in
>>today's
>>circular for $2.99?
>
> Call the store. Ask them to read you the FCC ID number on the serial
> number tag. Then go unto:
> https://gullfoss2.fcc.gov/prod/oet/c...ericSearch.cfm
> and inscribe the FCC ID number into the grantee and product code
> boxes. That should bring up the relevent documents. If you slog
> through the test report, you can usually get a clue as to who made it.
> Also, the photos will show the chipset used.
> --
> Jeff Liebermann (E-Mail Removed)
> 150 Felker St #D http://www.LearnByDestroying.com
> Santa Cruz CA 95060 http://802.11junk.com
> Skype: JeffLiebermann AE6KS 831-336-2558

"Mike Schumann" <mike-(E-Mail Removed)> hath wroth:

>It's an outfit called Edimax Technology from Tawain.

I know them well. It's one of these:
http://www.edimax.com/html/english/p...t-wireless.htm
No clue which one. Maybe if you get the model number....?

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Jeff Liebermann (E-Mail Removed)
150 Felker St #D http://www.LearnByDestroying.com
Santa Cruz CA 95060 http://802.11junk.com
Skype: JeffLiebermann AE6KS 831-336-2558

It's the BR-6204WG. Any idea who to get this to work in WDS mode? I'm not
having much luck, and the manual is useless. At $2.99 each after rebate,
this would be a VERY sweet deal if I could get it to work reliably.

Mike Schumann

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> "Mike Schumann" <mike-(E-Mail Removed)> hath wroth:
>
>>It's an outfit called Edimax Technology from Tawain.
>
> I know them well. It's one of these:
> http://www.edimax.com/html/english/p...t-wireless.htm
> No clue which one. Maybe if you get the model number....?
>
> --
> Jeff Liebermann (E-Mail Removed)
> 150 Felker St #D http://www.LearnByDestroying.com
> Santa Cruz CA 95060 http://802.11junk.com
> Skype: JeffLiebermann AE6KS 831-336-2558

"Mike Schumann" <mike-(E-Mail Removed)> top-posted:
>It's the BR-6204WG.

>"Jeff Liebermann" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
>> http://www.edimax.com/html/english/p...t-wireless.htm

Did you load the latest firmware and get the manual from the
WWWebsite?

It's this one:
http://www.edimax.com/html/english/p.../BR-6204Wg.htm

Even the instruction manual is the same as CompUSA's, with different
screen pictures.


Interestingly, the latest firmware on CompUSA's website is 1.40 and on
Edimax's website, it's 1.37. My unit came with 1.35, so I upgraded it.
It's a RealTek chipset, RTL8186 CPU, (different from the WRT54G and 16
MB RAM and 2 MB flash - I have no idea if any third party firmware
would run on this thing) and they have the firmware sourcecode on the
Edimax website.

I ran in to buy it, once I saw that the instruction manual said that it
has QoS.
I have an WRT54G -- but I wanted to pick this up for my brother, who
uses VOIP too. So far, QoS tests haven't been working too well. I'll
have to do more testing and maybe call support. (My WRT54G with DD-WRT
QoS has no dropouts on phonecalls, with high bandwidth usage... this
one does have dropouts).

If anyone gets QoS to work well, please let me know... I use the
speedtest on www.speakeasy.net/speedtest , as I'm talking on a VOIP
phone to another local phone in this house. The upload is the issue.
You can hear delay/break-up on the landline, when I talk into the VOIP
phone, when it's starting up the upload test.
I have no problem with the WRT54G.

Also, there's no static DHCP in the router config. So as an
alternative, you'd set an IP outside the range of the DHCP server, with
settings on the connected device itself.

Besides that, the unit seems to work well, in the few hours I've had it
up. I just want to learn all about setting up this router, before I go
bring it to my brother's house next week.