HELP!......802.11g Wireless Bridge recommendation

Hi all. I've been looking to purchase a wireless bridge 802.11g and
would like to hear some opinions. I've looked at the Netgear WGE101,
the D-Link DWL-G810, and the Linksys WET54G. I would like to hear
opinions on range, speed, unit overheating, problems, successes, etc.
Thanks in advance for the input.

Forget about DWL-G810. You can use DWL2000AP with firmware 2.0 on both
sides. My question is, what is the distance between AP's and what kind of
antennas you want to use?
(sory for my bad english)

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robee


"Mike Brown" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> Hi all. I've been looking to purchase a wireless bridge 802.11g and
> would like to hear some opinions. I've looked at the Netgear WGE101,
> the D-Link DWL-G810, and the Linksys WET54G. I would like to hear
> opinions on range, speed, unit overheating, problems, successes, etc.
> Thanks in advance for the input.

Right now, I can connect to a few AP's in my neighborhood using my
Toshiba PDA with 802.11b. I modified it to accept an external antenna.
I don't know how far the AP's are. The antenna I'm using is the SMC
DI145. So what I want to get is a bridge, preferably with a good radio
to connect my ethernet devices to these AP's. Your english is good.
Thanks for the reply.

On Mon, 3 Nov 2003 07:42:24 +0100, "Robee" <(E-Mail Removed)>
wrote:

>Forget about DWL-G810. You can use DWL2000AP with firmware 2.0 on both
>sides. My question is, what is the distance between AP's and what kind of
>antennas you want to use?
>(sory for my bad english)

Hi all. I've been looking to purchase a wireless bridge 802.11g and
would like to hear some opinions. I've looked at the Netgear WGE101,
the D-Link DWL-G810, and the Linksys WET54G. I would like to hear
opinions on range, speed, unit overheating, problems, successes, etc.
Thanks in advance for the input.

Mike,
The simplest answer I can give you to your question is for you to get
a wireless bridge from the same manufacturer of your other wireless
equipment. If it's LInksys, get a Linksys bridge. If its Netgear, get
a Netgear bridge. Take it from someone who spend lots of hours of
trial and error, research and reading, and asking questions in the
newsgroup and elsewhere.. this is want you want to do in order to
minimize problems and increase your chances of success.
Now onto your points of interest:
1. range - it's dependent more on the environmen and device placement
than on brand. By FCC control, the signal strength output of the
hardware is fixed, so the only way you can affect range is by changing
locations, or changing antennas. As for the latter (changing antennas)
not all manufacturers have removeable antennas.. so thats the main
difference here.
2. speed - although affected by the signal strength, the starting
point for speed is determined by the protocol i.e. 802.11a, 802.11g,
and 802.11b.
3. unit overheating - should not be a problem.. just look for a unit
with a seperate power module/transformer, as most heat producting
circuitry resides there.
4. problems - none of thes products have been out in the mainstream to
obtain any kind of good reliability data. best thing to look at here
is the warranty info.. that will tell you how well its made.
5. successes - see # 4

Thanks the best I can tell you right now. Good Luck.
Marv
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> "Mike Brown" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> > Hi all. I've been looking to purchase a wireless bridge 802.11g and
> > would like to hear some opinions. I've looked at the Netgear WGE101,
> > the D-Link DWL-G810, and the Linksys WET54G. I would like to hear
> > opinions on range, speed, unit overheating, problems, successes, etc.
> > Thanks in advance for the input.