[Leaplist] advice on wifi router please

[andrei raevsky]

Hi Brian and Steve,

How are wireless routers configured?!  I was at a Radio Shack yesterday and
the manager told me that I can go online to a Brighthouse webserver which
allows me to configure my router via the Internet.  Is that correct, or do I
need to connect to the router via a local network and call up some http
interface on the router itself?  Or do I need to connect the router directly
to my computer and do it from there?  I have no win32 machines at home at
all (have been totally free since 2000 already) so cannot do the latter.

Right now I do have dial-up so if the Brighthouse tech connect the NAT
box/cable modem as they said they would, I could dial-up to the Brighthouse
website and configure my wireless router like that I suppose.

But how much configuration would I really need?  My (very limited)
understanding is that the Brighthouse servers would give each machine on my
home network a DHCP given IP address.  And for what concerns firewalling, I
don't care what the box would do anyway - I run a firewall on each
individual machine at home.  So what kind of configuration are we talking
about?

Many thanks for your help!

Andrei

On 7/18/07, Steve Litt <slitt at troubleshooters.com> wrote:
>
> On Wednesday 18 July 2007 06:41, Brian Rose wrote:
>
> > I bought my parents a recent Linksys (non-Linux-able)
>
> Hi Brian,
>
> When you say non-linuxable, you just mean it won't run Linux as its OS,
> right?
> You don't mean it won't transmit to Linux boxes, or that it can't be
> configured via the web interface by Linux boxes, do you?
>
> Thanks
>
> SteveT
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