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To: rgood2002 who wrote (40793)4/21/2004 9:43:56 AM
From: SI Dave  Read Replies (1) of 110652
 
>>he is about 150 ft away from the WAP.

That's pushing it, irrespective of what the manufacturer claims. You might have to get a directional antenna. If he can't even see the SSID, then he's not getting signal. At that distance, you'd better have clear line of sight without any heavy walls, and certainly no intervening stucco walls (wire mesh in stucco severely degrades the signal).

If you have WEP turned off, you'll have to tell the client side that it's okay to connect to unsecure networks.

>>>i'll get on his computer and ping his card (assuming i can find the ip address).

He won't have a valid IP address since he'll be needing to connect to your router to get one from DHCP. You could skip DHCP assign it an IP like (i.e. 192.168.1.10) and tell it the gateway address and subnet mask (192.168.1.1 and 255.255.255.0) and the DNS addresses, but it'll be moot if it can't see the WAP or router.

if it pings, then i'll type the ip into IE and see if i can configure his card that way.

The client devices don't have user interfaces like the WRT54G and WAP. You either have to configure them through the Windows tool or the utility that comes with the client nic. I haven't been on '98 in a long time, but I suspect your best bet is to use the Linksys utility.

In the final analysis, I suspect he is too far away.
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