Microsoft MN 700 Wireless Router
Does anyone know of updates for this router to increase the juice? What about other tweaks for the MN 700?
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Chivalry1 Member Posts: 569I tell you what... I have a MS wireless and its a piece of crap. I will never again buy anymore wireless devices. I think that they realized this and go out of the wireless/network market. I still cant get my wireless gcard to work."The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: be satisfied with your opinions and
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JDMurray Admin Posts: 13,101 AdminChivalry1 wrote:I tell you what... I have a MS wireless and its a piece of crap.
The MN-700 is just rebranded by Microsoft. You need to find out who the OEM is.
Here's a good thread on hacking the MN-700: http://wl500g.info/archive/index.php/t-1616.html -
jcourtenay Inactive Imported Users Posts: 38 ■■□□□□□□□□lol, never heard of a microsoft wireless anything before.John Courtenay
MCP,MCSA,MCSE(Windows 2000)(210,215,216,217,218,219,220)
Aiming for MCSE 2003 by end of 2006
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cairtaker Member Posts: 140Why do i have to constantly reset my wrt54gs? sometimes 3 or 4 times a day? Yank power and reinsert? This happens on one of my other wireless routers here? is it a power issue or what? It seems to stop connecting with the net and then i pull out and reinsert the power and I'm back in business?To protect and to serve(r)...
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JDMurray Admin Posts: 13,101 Admincairtaker wrote:Why do i have to constantly reset my wrt54gs? sometimes 3 or 4 times a day? Yank power and reinsert? This happens on one of my other wireless routers here? is it a power issue or what? It seems to stop connecting with the net and then i pull out and reinsert the power and I'm back in business?
If your connect drops 3-4 times a day then it's not a DHCP leasing problem. I'd install a sniffer on the WRT54G's outside port so I can see what the router is receiving when it looses its connection. It might be a specific malformed packet, or even an attack that works against your version of Linksys firmware. Try updating your firmware, or even changing it to the OpenWRT or Sveasoft firmware for the WRT54G.
Besides these possibilities, the router's "wall wart" power adapter may be going bad. Those things are plugged in for years without a chance to cool down, and they do go bad. I'd suggest swapping out your current power adapter with another that has the same voltage and equal or better amperage rating and see if the problem goes away. Maybe just power-down the router and let it cool off for a few hours, but I'd still try a different power adapter anyway. -
wastedtime Member Posts: 586 ■■■■□□□□□□I am not saying this is it but had a similar problem with a 3com wireless router. Then 1 day it just wouldn't work was getting FCS errors on the switch it was connected to...and then I smelt burnt electrolytic capacitor.
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JDMurray Admin Posts: 13,101 Adminwastedtime wrote:...and then I smelt burnt electrolytic capacitor.
They can make a really loud POP! too (especially when you throw them into a fire). -
cairtaker Member Posts: 140Man I love this forum, where else is a guy to go and feel right at home..
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cairtaker Member Posts: 140JD, I think you may be more on track than you realize, cause it does it here with the mn 700 or the wrt54gs. I'll try the sniffer. Do you have recommendations on the sniffer? What's a good free one?To protect and to serve(r)...
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JDMurray Admin Posts: 13,101 AdminBy a "sniffer" I mean a router appliance that can log raw traffic (that is, packet traffic not yet filtered by the router's firewall) coming in from the Internet. If something on the Internet is killing the router's connection, the last few entries in the log should show the cause. If the router firmware doesn't store an internal log, it will support a syslogd service for forwarding log messages to an external logging program, like the Kiwi Syslog Daemon.
If that doesn't turn up anything, the next thing I'd try is connecting a Linux computer with two NICs and running Ethereal (a real sniffer) between my DSL modem and router, and just forward packet traffic directly between the two NICs. That would certainly log all raw Internet traffic, but the sniffer computer itself might get hacked from the Internet before the router problem occurred. -
Chivalry1 Member Posts: 569JDMurray, they made wireless routers and wireless cards. I bought a MS wireless card about 3 years ago when they were giving up on the wireless network market. Check out the links...
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00006IJO4/104-2716611-2257569?v=glance&n=172282
http://cgi.ebay.com/Microsoft-MN-520-802-11b-Wireless-PCMCIA-card_W0QQitemZ5876540921QQcategoryZ45000QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem"The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: be satisfied with your opinions and
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JDMurray Admin Posts: 13,101 AdminIt looks like SMC might the OEM of the Microsoft CardBus WNIC. I can't make out the OUI of the MAC address in the eBay photo, but package looks similar to the old SMC PCMCIA adapters. I doubt the Microsoft card has an external antenna jack, tho.