Re: reliable wireless router

From: Shane R. Spencer <shane@tdxnet.com>
Date: Fri Jan 13 2006 - 09:45:03 AKST

On Fri, 2006-01-13 at 00:27 -0800, Piet van Weel wrote:
> Wow!! One thing to clear the air with... :)
> The only thing I use IE for on the Windows side of the machine is for
> doing updates...

Ugh.. I try to do that as well for the people here at the office.. but
so many of their b2b sites require IE. Even though I explain how to get
into IE.. if they don't see the icon it might as well not be there.

> For everything else there's FIREFOX!!

True nuff.

> As for accessing the DI-604 and the Belkin... I've used both the Linux
> and Windows to set them up and at any time on ANY machine I own I can
> bring up either device. (Right now there are 5 computers on my personal
> network, two dual booting workstations, one server, and the kids
> microsoft windows gaming machine.)
>
> (BTW I haven't run across any devices recently that can't be equally
> accessed from FIREFOX and ie.)
>
> Piet
>
> Fielder George Dowding wrote:
>
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> >Yes, YMMV. OTOH, any thingy (generic term) that _requires_ IE or some
> >other Windows feature (bug) to access its administrative interface gets
> >an automatic _SUX_ grade from me. To be perfectly clear, if I can't use
> >Firefox on a Linux box to set it up, _SUX_!
> >
> >That was my experience with the two D-Link wireless thingies. So, a
> >DI-604 router in a Windows environment may be just ducky. I have no
> >experience with the beastie however.
> >
> >Query: What browser and operating system did you use to set it up, Piet?
> >
> >fgd.
> >
>
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