Hi there,
I recently spent 4 hours troubleshooting a new installation of a linksys
802.11g WAP which I purchased to increase signal strength and range. (It was
a WAP54G). After much troubleshooting where the Xbox network adaptor
(MN-740) would drop the network connection as soon as I attached the XBOX
itself to the network adaptor, I realized that the reason this was happening
was the MAC address filtering. In order to have the network adaptor
actually join itself to the network, you need to add BOTH the MAC for the
adaptor itself AND the MAC for the XBOX into the MAC address filtering ALLOW
table for the Linksys access point.
I believe that this may solve other issues that people are having with
attaching these devices to networks that use MAC filtering. Try adding both
the MAC for the Xbox and the MAC for the wireless MN-740 adaptor into the
filtering table as allowed addresses.
Right now I'm working fine with MAC filtering enabled and 128bit WEP turned
ON as well. FYI - with these Linksys units throughput goes from 54mbps to
18 when 128bit WEP is turned ON. Must be due to the cheap CPUs in these
units.
Anyway, I hope that helps.
Have a great night,
Eric
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