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D-Link DWL-G700AP Wireless Access Point, 802.11g, 54MbpsI am well pleased with the purchase.
Beware of this Seller. It did light up, but that's about all.The Seller would not accept it back claiming there is nothing wrong with it. The item would not work for me, even after spending a lot of time with a Tech. from the Company and my own ISP provider. I find this to be very poor customer service and will never buy from them again.
That is to say, it can take your wired system to wireless. Caveat emptor. This product seems to function ONLY as a Wireless Access Point. This can NOT act as a bridge, nor, I suspect a repeater.
Now I could log in to the access point and start configuration. You have to change the IP address of the laptop to do this. Everything seems to work now. Switched over to using Safari browser on windows laptop. Set the static IP address on the laptop to be one number higher than the default access point IP address (in the rightmost portion of the IP address). Ran through the configuration wizard, but it did not seem to work. Took a while to find that this worked consistently, and slow progress to configure this one change at a time, but once I found this approach, got the thing configured and installed.
After some experimentation, found that I could change one parameter and then hit apply, and the changes would be made. In the configuration I had, I was connecting to a wired network with a router. IE constantly complained about not being connected and kept taking itself offline. D-Link products have been straightforward to configure and use, but not this one.I did not want to change the addresses on the hardwired network at home so I hooked this access point up to a laptop directly, just a lan cable between the laptop and the access point, nothing else connected. Google on another computer to see how to do this. I was not able to make progress at all.
Went to manual mode, made multiple changes on each page, and then clicked on the "apply" button. Configured the "LAN" to automatically get an IP address, and configured the WAN to have DHCP off. I have many D-LINK products (router, switches) and so went with this access point. MS Internet Explorer 7 on my windows laptop (XP SP2) was what I tried to use first. This always generated an error message and did not make the changes on the page.
On the advice of a seasoned IT pro, I replaced the repeater with this Access Point. It came up working from the beginning and has not failed in three weeks of daily use. The signal from repeater to PC would always be good. But then, inevitably, it would have to be power-cycled because the wireless PC would no longer be able to connect to it. The router has always worked fine. We had been using the D-Link Wireless Repeater in conjunction with the D-Link DI-524 Wireless Router. The repeater would work for a few minutes, or maybe a few hours, or maybe all day. you just could not get to the Internet.
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