wireless/broadband router recommendations?

[James Knott]

CLIFFORD ILKAY wrote:
> At 08:00 AM 07/09/2003 -0400, James Knott wrote:
> 
>> Greg Franks wrote:
>>
>>> The Linksys wireless router and WAP both work fine with mac's.
>>
>>
>>
>> FWIW, Best Buy has an SMC 7004VWBR wireless router on sale at $89.00, 
>> until next Thursday and it comes with a $60 rebate from SMC.  If 
>> they're out of stock, you can get a rain cheque.  I picked one up on 
>> Friday and it works fine with Linux and lists Mac OS on the box.  
>> However, these boxes tend to be OS neutral.  As long as you have a 
>> Java enabled browser, you can configure it.
> 
> 
> Can you run it strictly as a WAP?
> 

Yes, though you'll have to provide your own dhcp server.  If the WAN 
side is not connected, the built in dhcp server gives the internal web 
server address as the gateway, instead of the configured address.  So, 
if you just turn off dhcp in it, you should be OK.


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