{"id":2182,"date":"2003-08-05T11:58:08","date_gmt":"2003-08-05T14:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/bb\/viewtopic.php?p=539"},"modified":"2010-05-08T23:39:50","modified_gmt":"2010-05-09T02:39:50","slug":"re-end-of-an-era-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/2003\/08\/05\/re-end-of-an-era-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Re: End of an era?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Rainer Brockerhoff wrote:<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I had some difficulty in getting the built-in Airport Extreme (802.11g) card to interoperate with my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smc.com\/index.cfm?sec=Products&amp;pg=Product-Details?=63&amp;site=c\">SMC Barricade 7004AWBR<\/a> wireless router. I tried several things &#8211; setting the MTU to 1492, changing from fixed IP to DHCP, downgrading the Airport software from 3.1 to 3.04, and trying out different WEP encryption options. I&#8217;ve had no time to regress some of these things to see which specific one was the culprit, but it&#8217;s working now.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I took some time to reinstall all of these things and it still worked. Finally I realized I had switched from Channel 11 (recommended to reduce interference by mobile phones) to Channel 1 at some point in the process.<\/p>\n<p>Testing most of the channels revealed an interesting pattern. Channels 1 to 3 work OK. Channels 4 and 5 work either intermittently or very slowly. Channels 6 to 11 don&#8217;t work at all! (Channels 12 to 14, supported on the SMC, apparently aren&#8217;t supported by Airport at all.) I&#8217;ll try to check this out on the Apple support boards &#8211; several people were complaining about similar problems, but I saw no reference to channel incompatibility.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rainer Brockerhoff wrote: I had some difficulty in getting the built-in Airport Extreme (802.11g) card to interoperate with my SMC Barricade 7004AWBR wireless router. I tried several things &#8211; setting the MTU to 1492, changing from fixed IP to DHCP, downgrading the Airport software from 3.1 to 3.04, and trying out different WEP encryption options. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hardware"],"featured_image_src":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Rainer Brockerhoff","author_link":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/author\/rbrockerhoff\/"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1q3Zc-zc","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2182\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}