[Leaplist] advice on wifi router please

[Aaron Morrison]

Every wireless router/access point I've seen can be configured via an  
http interface on the local network... Some of the newer ones have an  
"easy config" mode (like press a button) that can be a pain to use,  
but generally you don't need the internet or windows to set these  
things up. In fact, the first thing I would turn off is any ability  
to configure the unit via the (public) internet.  Bad idea, if you  
ask me.

--am



On 18 Jul 2007, at 11:32, andrei raevsky wrote:

> 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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