Re: Looking for a WPA wireless bridge

In article <O1dPsCEZFHA.3488@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, bjrugg
<bjrugg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>I have a Belkin 7231-4 (WPA compatible) wireless router connected to a
>cable modem and by a lan connection to my wife's computer. I have a
>laptop working via the router with a WPA compatible Netgear WG511 card.
>I also have an Athlon x64 computer working with the router via a lan
>connection to a Netgear WGE101 wireless bridge(not WPA compatible). All
>works fine in WEP.
>
>What I want to do is replace the WGE101 with a WPA device that will
>allow my netwotk to go WPA. The solution is clouded by the fact that I
>run Windows x64 Pro on the x64 and drivers for USB devices and WIreless
>NIC cards are not readily available at the moment.
>
>Any recommendations would be appreciated.

In a previous reply, I recommended looking at the Viewsonic WAPBR-100,
which is on sale at CompUSA:

http://www.viewsonic.com/products/networking/wirelessdatanetworks/accesspoint_repeater/wapbr100/
http://www.compusa.com/products/product_info.asp?product_code=319753&pfp=cat3

Someone (bjrugg?) sent me an E-mail message (that I accidentally
deleted) saying that the WAPBR-100 has bad reviews on web sites.

I use a WAPBR-100 as an access point client (wireless bridge) to give
wireless network access to computers that only have a wired Ethernet
connection. It works fine in that application, connecting to my
Belkin 802.11g wireless router and using WPA-PSK encryption.

However, the product's documentation is terrible, and I had a hard
time figuring out how to configure it.

Please post any reply as a follow-up message in the news group
for everyone to see, not as E-mail.
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Steve Winograd, MS-MVP (Windows Networking).

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