 DaveA
@cpe.net.cable.rogers | reply to Linksys Tech2
Re: More observations (Take these with a grain of salt as I am a bit bleary eyed..)
(1) Re: non-WEP accessing router following mandatory WEP setting.
From my earlier experience with 1.39.2 and 1.40.3, the only time my non-WEP nic (WPC11) could talk to the router after WEP was enabled was when the nic had already been connected to the router. If I rebooted it wouldn't connect without the WEP passphrase -- presumably this means that most non-WEP stations would still be disabled, but its still a nasty bug.
I haven't yet repeated this failing with the 1.42.7 firmware, but I only tried it a couple of times.
(2) WLAN MAC Filter -- anyone else noticing a small performance loss? seems possibly intermittent, on the order of 100-200 kbps. This is nothing like the big drop for using power save or WEP (which can as much as 1 Mbps each for me).
(3) Disable SSID Broadcast -- It prevented my WPC11 from "seeing" my SSID and the existence of my access point. It also cannot connect using the "any" SSID. No-Strings mentioned that netstumbler still found the SSID. Was it really still broadcasting the SSID or just the BSSID?
(4) uPnP -- using port 5678 to configure the router keeps popping up "Syntax Error Line 1" dialogs. The pages look ok, and the settings can be applied, but it seems whenever this happens the "settings successful" page either doesn't come up or takes a very long time to appear.
I don't get the script errors if I configure it on port 80, but I still find that it usually takes the browser a very long time to finish loading the confirm page (if at all). The router reboots immediately, however. It's just the browser utility that doesn't provide timely/any feedback. |
