Sentech myWireless and Apple rocks!

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Lailoken

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I just plugged my modem into my Apple Airport Extreme wireless hub, and with a couple of settings it just worked! No problems with MTU > 1400, no problems with port mapping or anything else for that matter.

Basically I can scrap my old ICS windows box!

Also, it has a feature to 'expose' a machine on my network as if it is on the internet (I'm guessing it maps all ports to that box). So no lowid in eMule without doing any port mappings!

I can still also forward any other ports to any other box if I choose to do so.

Apple has been my best purchase choice in ages.

Another thing, my pings don't seem to be bad either (with a 15% signal strengh):

Pinging www.sentech.co.za [66.18.65.115] with 32 bytes of data:

Reply from 66.18.65.115: bytes=32 time=76ms TTL=251
Reply from 66.18.65.115: bytes=32 time=76ms TTL=251
Reply from 66.18.65.115: bytes=32 time=73ms TTL=251
Reply from 66.18.65.115: bytes=32 time=74ms TTL=251

Ping statistics for 66.18.65.115:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 73ms, Maximum = 76ms, Average = 74ms

Hmm... my modem is in a windowless concrete bunker and I have not had any reception problems... the patch antenae cannot really give me a better signal either.

I'm a happy camper!
:))

(I had ENDLESS troubles getting it to work on my windows boxen... mostly due to the crappy drivers not handling SMP (Hyperthreading) at all as well as MTU provlems due to windows 2000 ICS not re-assembling packets properly)

My setup at home:
I have a iBook G3 900Mhz + WiFi (OS X.3)
2 Normal hubs
Sentech 256
10 Network points
2 Servers (Linux + Windows 200 server SMP)
2 Games PCs (P4 3Ghz HT 1 Gb 800 DDR)

And it's all driven from:
1 Apple Airport Extreme Hub (which acts as a time server, dhcp server, dns server, print server, router and ICS device)
 
ask you a favor Lailoken if you have any way of taking your BER reading with the mysignal program and post it if possible.

Thanks
Cerberus
 
Some pictures:

The bunker where I keep my modem (And Linux server, and stored Amiga 1200 and Sun Sparc):

http://marius.e.co.za/dl/445N0038.jpg


The legendary Apple Airport Extreme:

http://marius.e.co.za/dl/445N0037.jpg


PS: What's the BER reading? I've dissasembled my windows server now, but when I used to use it I remember getting a 12-18 % signal from base station in Arcadia, Pretoria. (Don't remember the number, but I recall there is a site with numbers someplace.)
 
PS:

Those pictures were taken by my P800.

Using Opera on my P800 and TCP/IP over Bluetooth to my iBook and WiFi to the Airport Extreme and via myWireless to here... only touching ground briefly.

;)
 
Lol Lailoken, assuming that you are married, did your wife banish you and your 'gadgets' to that little bunker? [:D]
 
-grin-

Nope, 32 yrs, and going strong...
;)

It's usually a choice between family and toys.
-wink-

(Other "toys" would include a 72cm Flatron TV with VGA input and a classic '82 Porsche 911 SC)

My "TV" multimedia PC also has on-board optical digital audio output connected to my 5.1 surround-sound theatre system. Combine that with my "VGA" Flatron TV, and wireless keyboard and mouse, and you have a remarkable Quake 3 experience. (A bit tricky to do the rocket platform to rail double flick jump on Q3DM6 with the wireless mouse though....)

:P
 
i have come to the conclusion that you make WAY too much money...

[|)]

I haven't lost my mind... It's backed up on disk somewhere...
 
-[:D]

You would be surprised how much not having a family can save you...

... but alas, money cannot buy happiness... and that makes me a saaad panda.
;)
 
"Money can't buy happiness, but it sure makes misery easier to live with."

or something like that...

<font size="1"><i>I haven't lost my mind... It's backed up on disk somewhere...</i></font id="size1">
 
*chortle*

yes... i like that one... :)

I haven't lost my mind... It's backed up on disk somewhere...
 
LOL Lailoken - heh - that photo of your bunker reminds me of my own bunker from many years back.

I was sharing a flat with my brother during the infamous "bachelor days" and the only place to put a computer was in the cupboard under the stairs.

This flat was on Pendoring Ave. just up the road from the MacDonalds near cresta and they were the grand old flat style of 40 years ago - you know, 1 foot thick walls with under stair cupboards you could almost stand up in.

My god, I could just about get a skinny half desk and chair in there - that was when I was well into IRC and causing k@k online !

Ahhh - thems waz the daze ! :)
 
Does any peeps know which other WiFi equipment will work this easy alongside MyWireless ?

Would like to get a similar setup at home, put the the Apple Airport is unlikely to be the cheapest, I might be wrong.

Would it be the best ?

I have seen some other equipment, but they don't have local distributors. Still trying to convince the boss to try and get the agency etc.

[V]
 
I have a Gigabyte 49G, supports PPOE, so it *should* support MyWireless. If you're keen to test it, I am in the Sandton area, maybe we can test sometime

Maybe getting MyWireless in the next coupla months though.
 
I got my Airport Extreme rather cheaply from the States for around R1600.

You can check out local apple stuff at www.zastore.co.za or www.applecart.co.za

(Around R2000 locally)
 
yeah the only thing is the prices of anything apple in sa...

.:Theta:.
------------------------------
AMD AthlonXP 2200+
MSI K7N2G-ILSR nForce 2
MSI Ge-Force 4 Ti 4200
2x 256Mb DDR 333Mhz
WD 120Gb Caviar SE

Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us.
 
I just purchased my new 17" powerbook from the states. I saved about R9000 by not getting it in SA. I can't wait for that to arrive :)
 
I guess Apple will charge you R 9000.00 for the 220 volt power supply ! [;)]

Package :256
Tower :36 Bedfordview
Signal : 11
S-N-L : 4
BER : 28%
Antenna : Patch - Batenna
Speedtest (Rodent): 138.6
Speedtest (int) : 79.2
Time of Test :20:02
Comments : Dang !

Pass the whiskey please! I need to dunk my Pringles ....
 
hehe
i got the world travel kit (with all the different power adapters) and the protection care plan (3 year extended warranty) for a mere extra $300 ... student discounts are the best
 
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