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I've been watching since 9am!
Craig
Condolences, Paul.
Steve, Host
My condolences go out to you, Paul.
Good luck to Bob and juice as they head to Detroit. Enjoy the trip - hope weather cooperates - and be prepared to be grilled to the nth degree about the smallest detail of the new Subie product offerings. I'll be looking for your reports here!
Ed
Missed the chat, if there was one!
OK, question for the IT gurus (and I'm supposed to be one). I have a Linksys wireless router up and running. Cabled PCs connect just fine, I've had two running simultaneously.
But my notebook with a Wireless G card does not connect. Or it does, it gives me the signal strenght, light goes green, but I open IE and no dice, no data.
The Linksys card's light it *not* on, so it does not see the Wireless PC. The PC says it does, but it doesn't.
I've got the SSID correct, the channel, etc. The Router has a password, but I don't see where to enter it. The card is a AirPlus Xtreme G. I installed that software and the Linksys software on the notebook.
Any tips? I'm trying to get this to work to take to Detroit, in case there is a Wireless G connection in Cobo Hall or at the Hotel.
-juice
Is encryption set on the router but not on the notebook card?
The router is a B or G, correct? A G card will work with B or G but not A.
Edit: Not an IT guru (not even close); but did manage to set up wireless at home and at parent's house. Belkin router (B) and notebook card (B) at home. Belkin router (B) and SMC wireless desktop adapter (B) at parent's. I only paid $30 (after rebates) for my router & notebook card and $10 (after rebates) for my parent's router & desktop adapter!
DaveM
-c
Greg
Bob
Wireless? What's that? ;-)
I caught a couple hours of WRC Marathon last night before dozing off on the couch. Nothing like a good sleep after a day of skiing in the fresh cold mountain air. We're having a wonderfully cold wet winter here in the N.W. Lot's of great snow! ;-)
Happy New Year!
-Ian
Hmm, how do you enable wireless on the router? The default setting is for either cable or wireless, I believe that's what I read.
Signal strength is 94%, it sees it, but no data.
I'll check the MAC filtering, but I don't think I'd been using it.
No biggie, I may just wire the house myself, a good buddy used to work with that type of stuff. Plus it's safer. I'd like to have connections in 4-5 different places, including on the deck outside! :-)
-juice
Unfortunately, all my experience is with Apple's Airport systems, so I can't offer much help for a PC setup. I guess the first step is to make sure that the laptop can connect to and administer the wireless base station. Step two is to get to the local network (and/or internet). This requires the proper network settings on the basestation *and* the laptop has to be "allowed". On Airports, this is done either via password or using MAC-based access control. If they are not "allowed", clients can connect to the basestation but not see the network (and that sounds like your problem).
If using MAC-based access control, make sure you use the MAC address of the laptop's wireless card and not the one for ethernet.
That's about all I know! Hope something might be of use. If you can tell me more specifics about your network setup, maybe something will jump out at me.
Craig
PS: my setup is
[cable modem] ----- [airport] (((((( [clients]
I can also stick a hub in there and have Airport serve wired clients as well (it's both a basestation and a router)
-juice
-Dennis
I slept thru New Years Eve. It was a week long marathon with family and friends. Fun, but exhausting. I crashed on the couch about 10:30pm, and missed the ball drop.
Somehow my Subi has become the parking lot punching bag. Two more scrapes on what was a clean two year old. I guess if that is the worst that happens in life, count myself lucky....
On the London cab issue, the wide rear doors & flat floor allow a kid in stroller to wheel right on board without unloading. It made it easy to get around town when we visited family a few years ago.
Steve
Any last words of advice? Besides dress warm?
-juice
Mark
I just wanted to say "thank you" to all the NJ Crew members who gave me input. It was a tough decision to make, and even now I sometimes wonder if I made the right one.
-Ty
Ty-
If your gut tells you not to take it, it's the right decision. Whatever your conscious tells you there after doesn't matter.
-Dave
You think 200 pics is enough?
Ty: always smart to play it safe.
-juice
That way if someone wants a higher resolution image, you have it available.
-Brian
My plan is to be on these boards tomorrow night and Wednesday night from the hotel. I should have a laptop with me and hope to get a connection in the room.
We come back Thursday so that chat should be real fun, too.
-juice
Well, this guy owned a GL for 25 years (!), 160k miles on it, never let him down. He has an Avalon now but is looking for something sportier. I'll get him a GT brochure...
-juice
Check around the hotel for a wireless connection. On the 48hrs one of the guys "found" a connection in the hotel lobby, then in a room facing the street.
Mark
Detroit International Auto Show!
PF Flyer
Host
Pickups & News & Views Message Boards
"The End of Detroit" by Micheline Maynard, page 294.
I have to get a copy to see exactly what I said, LOL.
-juice
-Brian
-juice
As I recall, it was easy to setup too (not that you need another project to do before travelling....).
Craig
-juice
Patti
Now when I'm at home, I sit in my old Forester and try to hypnotize the odometer into jumping from 88K to 95K. It does not work.
When I'm at work, I'm trying to hypnotize my boss into giving me a good raise. It does not work either.
I wrote a letter to Santa, but instead of new XT he brought me a digital camera (Canon S400). Well, at least I have something to take pix of the XT if/when I finally get to buy it.
AAAAA! HELP ME! HELP ME!
Although I suspect that a few of those 'on-the-fence' might continue to sway to that GT debuting at the NAIAS this week.
That just means more XT's for us! 8-)
-Brian
-c
Have a great time at the show!
DaveM
Cheers Pat.
-Dave
Craig
I have a plan. I'll get the GT and you get the XT -- that way we can compare the next time we have a Bay Area meet. :-)
Ken
I think it was the old laptop. Router is fine, card is fine is this newer laptop.
This is cool, and fast too! I can't even tell it's not CAT 5.
Wow Kate, 88k already? You're lucky, it'll be sooner than you think!
Detroit here we come! If they have a phone jack, ethernet jack, or even a Wi-Fi signal (G), then I'm in! :-)
-juice
Wifi is great. I don't know how I lived without it in the past. Just make sure you have WEP setup -- 128bit encryption, MAC address filtering and the like.
BTW, 802.11g is backwards compatible with the more common b version.
Looking forward to reading your reports from Detroit!
Ken
Kate - a couple of trips to the snow along with a few visits to Subaru Santa Cruz to drool over the cars and you'll cover 7,000 miles in no time. Then again, maybe a consulation with Ross would help.
I received the email from Subaru on the new Legacy. I think I'm catching a strain of the same virus.
Jim
More info trickling in....
Craig
-Ian
Since it'll get a bit hectic over the next couple of days, let's try to make the Future Models thread the main thread for this discussion, OK? That's where we will check in first.
After all, the 2005 Legacy 2.5i and 2.5GT are future models. Plus we'll see the B9 Scrambler and R1e.
-juice
Kate - By all the power vested in me (by nobody in particular), I hereby officially absolve you of all obligations related to 7000 unearned miles.
Steve