My Linksys and a d-link 802.11g

ZENYO · September 24th, 2003, 06:38 PM

Hello,

I found a great deal on a D-Link 802.11g router (DI-624) basically after a price match and a mail-in-rebate I can get it for $118 (canadian). My question is...

Will this work (talk) correctly with my Linksys? (I'm not at home right now and I don't remember my the model# on my linksys). Will my laptop that will be connected to my dlink talk correctly with the workstations connected to my linksys?

Thanks
Allan

sixf00t4 · September 26th, 2003, 07:34 PM

linksys what? router? wireless card?

explain a little further if you can what you are trying to do and what you have set up right now.

in past experiences, dlink is cheap...dlink with dlink devices seem to work most of the time, but dlink routers with other brand cards are iffy.

**GroundZero3** · September 26th, 2003, 07:38 PM

if you are using a linksys router, and you get the d link router, might as well dump the old linksys and use the d link in its place

ZENYO · September 26th, 2003, 07:53 PM

Sorry, that's not what I meant. The point is moo now anyway because I decided on a linksys but what I meant was...

I currently have a Linksys router that my "Wired" workstations are plugged into. I am currently shopping for an 802.11g wireless router (possibly d-link) for my laptops. My question is...

With my Wired machines on the linksys and my wireless machines on a d-link, will my network work? Or, will the two different manufactured devices cause any conflicts with speed or data traveling through the network?

Basically are Linksys and D-link routers compatible with each other?

Hope that's better.

ZENYO · September 26th, 2003, 07:57 PM

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Originally posted by GroundZero3
if you are using a linksys router, and you get the d link router, might as well dump the old linksys and use the d link in its place

Is there any specific reason? Will it just not work?

**GroundZero3** · September 26th, 2003, 10:52 PM

you should be able to plug the wireless router into the wired lan and be able to use the wireless with no problem.

but why have two routers on the network?

you honestly can take the linksys out, sell it or whatever and use the d-link

ZENYO · September 29th, 2003, 12:23 PM

Oh.. I see what your saying. That will eventually happen but right now I don't want to buy 5 wireless nics (they're kinda expensive)...

**GroundZero3** · September 29th, 2003, 07:22 PM

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Originally posted by ZENYO
Oh.. I see what your saying. That will eventually happen but right now I don't want to buy 5 wireless nics (they're kinda expensive)...

no worries, the Dlink also has a 4 port switch built in

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An integrated 4-port switch allows direct connection of up to four computers

ZENYO · September 29th, 2003, 07:27 PM

lol... I know!

I was talking to my partner who was reading this post and he slapped me upside the head and reminded me about the four ports... I simply let it slip my mind in the quest for an answer for the original question...

Sometimes my attention to detail goes right out the window

Thanks GZ

Wombat · September 30th, 2003, 02:51 AM

ZENYO,
Cross companies work with no problem. My current setup is as follows, DSL into SMC 4 port router (7004abr) port 1 goes to the other end of the house (bedroom) port 2 goes to a Media (movie machine port 3 goes to main (this one) machine port 4 goes under the house but across the room to my rack setup and into a Dlink 614+ wireless router. But I am not using it as a router but as a access point, so I don’t use the wan port but instead connect though port 4, one of those other ports connect to a 16 port hub leaving that unit with 2 ports spare.

Now I picked up another of these 614+ wireless routers and will be using that as a access point to that will connect to the SMC via the bedroom connection.

Why am I using these that way. Simple, there cheap. The first one I bought at Costco as a kit with a PCMCIA 650+ card and cost me I think $80.00 after rebates, and the second one just cost me $14.95 after rebates. They may only be 802.11b but they are 256 bit encryption and have a pretty decent speed when used with the 650+ card (advertised double speed 22bps)

Paul