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Re: Beta Firmware BEFW11S4v1 Just Flashed my BEFW11S4 to this new firmware... so far so good...
I'm soooo happy that linksys has finally added some security features on the wireless portion... I was just about to sell this thing for a wap11 and a router until this came out...
I first tried the Disable broadcast SSID... After removing it in xp list of networks to connect, and loaded netstumbler.. (this would simulate as if i was war driving, net stumbler did not pick up the Access Point. Left it for 2 minutes.. )
I then tried the MAC Filtering... Kinda a tricky setup..
As everyone wants to add just their list of Wireless cards to the filter setup so it will accept only those nics, not the opposite... it works this way...
In Wireless Station MAC Filter is set to enable.
then you click Edit Mac Filter Settings
In there, you add your mac address in the stations...
The filter tab is made for disabling the mac address.. I guess they added that in case lets say you find frank downloading porn and you want to suspend his wireless nic for a week, so you can checkmark it instead of deleting the mac address and then reentering it... Tricky way of putting it, but a good idea.
One Bug i found was when i was entering the mac address... Once again in my prev. bugs i've seen on these routers, the wireless firmware doesn't load and wireless is disabled totally on the router... (ie the dreaded Firmware Version: ) Error... I reseted the router again and it popped back up.. tho scared me for a bit.
UPNP is quite neat... haven't tried it on MSN messagener etc.
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