(This may not be news to some of you but I didn't know it). The wrt54g wap comes with 4 ethernet ports for your LAN. There are no link LEDs on the ports (which didn't impress me). Also there was no X - straight switch on one of the ports to allow me to daisy chain without a crossover cable (this didn't impress me either). I do a wifi event in a large field and I need to have the equivalent of a hub every 100m or so to get to the other side. If I couldn't daisy chain the wrt54g's then I would need to have a hub/switch with every wrt54g. Having 3 wap11's I wasn't expecting much from LinkSys in the wrt54g and what I saw fitted my expectations.
So I called up Intrex about the switches that someone on this list had recommended to find that the Intrex switches didn't have an X - straight switch because they didn't need one - all the ports were autosense. I didn't know such things existed and it occured to me to test the wrt54g ports for autosense. It turns out that _all_ the LAN ports on the wrt54g are autosense. You can plug 2 wrt54g's together and ping through both of them to a 3rd device. I did this test to see if the two devices would flap, but they appear not to - one of them must decide to be straight and the other crossover. Presumably this is information is in the wrt54g manual, but the manuals for the wap11 were filled with pictures of an adoring wife and husband whose life had been filled with joy by their wap11 and was devoid of technical information, so I didn't bother with the wrt54g manual. Joe -- Joseph Mack PhD, High Performance Computing & Scientific Visualization LMIT, Supporting the EPA Research Triangle Park, NC 919-541-0007 Federal Contact - John B. Smith 919-541-1087 - [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
