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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."

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  1. The one Linksys wireless product I'm waiting for by Roland+Piquepaille · · Score: 5, Insightful

    ... is the one that won't allow unencrypted 802.11 links to happen. Whenever I go wardriving, half of the hits I get from kismet have SSID="LINSYS", WEP="NO".

  2. Linux and Linksys as "disruptive technology" by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    Cringely has an interesting article on how Linksys has embraced Linux in products like the Linksys WRT54G and how the teaming of this technology may well be the next disruptive technology.

  3. Re:good stuff, if properly used by Roland+Piquepaille · · Score: 5, Insightful

    This, for anyone who knows dick about radios, is the height of stupidity. There are, very rarely, time where it makes sense to amplify a low gain antenna, but monkeys are not qualified to make this decision.

    Tell me, do you really pay Slashdot to pass for a raving lunatic, or did someone offer you a subscription for Christmas?

    I have new for you: if you knew "dick" about radio yourself, you'd know that stock AP "antennas" aren't really antenna at all and rarely reach 2.2dBi anyway. As for the "morons" who buy RF amps, they may not be "specialists" like yourself.

    In fact, most 802.11 users don't know anything about it, except that it's convenient and they just have to connect to the router's internal web server to configure it. And when they want more range, they buy whatever solution the shop sells them. Just like most people who drive cars don't know anything about how cars work, and let AutoZone sell them gasoline additives to "clean their injectors": well, if you don't know anything about cars, how will they know it's snake oil?

    So, why don't you get off your high horse and stop talking out of your arse?