kair: Linksys Wet11 solution to problems
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I recently purchased a Linksys Wet11, in order to put a desktop G3 in a remote part of the house on the network without running wires. The Wet11 has the advantage that it connects to your computer (or anything really) via a simple ethernet cable, and turns it into a wireless device capable of communicating with an Airport network (or any other 802.11b wireless network). There are no drivers to install and no compatibility problems. However, there is a small snag. After playing with the Wet11 for several hours I could simply not get out to the internet. I could see the DSL router, and all the other computers on the network, but no internet. This really had me baffled, because the Wet11 doesn't really do any filtering, it's supposed to just pass the information through. Hooking up a cable proved that the settings on the Mac weren't the issue, and I spent quite a long time on the phone with Linksys tech support to no avail. Hooking the Wet11 up to a PC worked like a charm. On the Mac, it was restriced to the LAN only. It just didn't make any sense. I finally, out of desperation more than anything else, tried changing my whole network addressing sheme, and lo and behold, now everything works fine. So, if you want to use the Wet11, there are a couple of things you need to know.
1) To set it up with a Mac, you simply hook it up with a cable and type it's address , which happens to be 192.168.1.225 into your browser.
2) To do this, your own computer's IP address has to be in the same range, i.e. it has to be 192.168.1.(some number between 1 and 255). Go to system preferences -> Network to set this.
3) When you configure your network you CANNOT use 192.168.0.x I haven't tried any other ones, but 192.168.1.x works.
This last part was causing the problem in my setup. It doesn't make sense, it doesn't apply to PC's, but it seems to be a fact.
If you use the 192.168.1.x address range, and if you don't have any other devices at 192.168.1.225 then the WET11 should work right out of the box. You don't even need to set it up, unless you want to enable WEP. WEP, btw, is not secure, do a web search before you trust any data to it.
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