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Linksys Shows Off New Products To SOCALWUG

Posted by timothy on from the cisco's-farm-team dept.

John Hering writes "Last night at the Southern California Wireless Users Group (SOCALWUG) meeting, a representative from Linksys, a division of Cisco Systems, presented several new never-before-seen Linksys products which including a wireless-G range extender, a wireless switch, wireless network attached storage and even a new Boingo co-branded wireless-G router which will serve as an off-the-shelf hotspot solution. It's interesting to note how the new Linksys products continue to look more and more like Cisco products."

4 of 85 comments (clear)

  1. More like Cisco? by CaptBubba · · Score: 4, Interesting
    I've been very impressed with Linksys lately. There is, however, one thing that they need to not bring over from the Cisco side: boot times.

    Cisco's stuff may be nearly bulletproof, but the damn things take forever to power on. A 350 AP or BR can easily take over 3 minutes to boot. I really hope that they can find a way around boot speed issues. The public at large will not be as willing to wait as a network admin.

  2. Meanwhile I'm still waiting by Crypto+Gnome · · Score: 4, Interesting

    For LinkSYS to support WPA in AP-AP (Wireless Bridge) mode on their WAP54G.

    "Note:WPA does not work in Wireless Bridge mode in this release"

    Dammit people, WHEN will you get it right?

    We don't need no stinkin NEW Products, we need completed features in our firmware for existing products.

    --
    Visit CryptoGnome in his home.
  3. Wireless Vlan: cool by rduke15 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I'm glad to see they seem to have dumped that horrible design they had.

    But more importantly, it looks like this will make what I wanted possible:

    Wireless switching with the Linksys WET54GS5 Wireless Ethernet Switch:
    - Managed Ethernet switch
    - Wireless supports virtual LANs (VLAN)
    - Supports up to 69 VLAN users
    - Each wireles suser gets a separate Subnetted IP address
    - Targeted release June 2004

    This should enable you to share your wireless Internet access, without opening up your own network to strangers.

  4. ethernet 2 USB converter by j1m+5n0w · · Score: 4, Interesting

    The SAN device looks cool - it appears to be a device that makes any USB mass storage device appear as a network drive. I wonder if it shows up as a windows file server, nfs server, or a network attached block device? Can two computers use it simultaneously? Does anyone else make something similar?

    -jim