[isp-wireless] Re: YDI EtherAnt Issue

[Eric Flanery <eflanery@...>]

Haven't seen it with EtherAnts, but we only have a few of those.

We have, however, been seeing this exact problem with Tranzeos (of which
we have a ton) and older 3Com ECBs with Orinoco Silvers. Primarily, it
seems to be Netgear routers doing this, but we have also seen it happen
with D-Link and others. We also saw this happen once with a Linksys
WAP-11, which is not G, obviously, but did seem to do the same thing.

We have had to move several customers off 802.11 entirely to get their
connections solid, due to this, and it's beginning to become a costly
pain.

I don't believe that it's an Agere issue, since we have seen it with
Prism-based clients. I think that it's likely this is a problem with the
routers which are doing this hijacking, rather than the client.

Perhaps Netgear (and others) decided that the concept of SSIDs is too much
for the average user to understand, and assume that every client around
could only possibly want to connect to their crappy routers. (just like
they assume that PPPoE PADIs don't need a Host-Uniq tag, argh)

Perhaps YDI, Tranzeo, and all the others can do something to prevent / fix
this, but I don't think they _caused_ this.

--Eric

Eric Flanery
Wireless Manager
FirstStep Internet
(208)882-8869

On Thu, 7 Oct 2004, Marty Dougherty wrote:

> We discovered a serious issue with the YDI EtherAnt's in the past few
> weeks and want to know if others who are using these are seeing the same
> problem yet. The issue is that the EtherAnt will associate with various
> 802.11G wireless Ap's regardless of the EtherAnt configured essid and or
> encryption. As an example, go out to Best Buy and pick up a new Netgear
> 54M wireless router (model WGR614 V4) and power it up anywhere near a
> EtherAnt- regardless of the EtherAnt config it will immediately
> associate with the netgear. (and un-associate with the correct AP!). We
> have escalated this to YDI and other then to tell us "its an Agere
> issue" we have received almost no feedback from them.
>
> We have hundreds of these deployed and this has just started with newer
> AP's. We even downgraded the EtherAnt firmware to something really old
> and still the same issue. I'm wondering if anyone else is seeing this
> yet or has more insight into what is going on?
>
> Marty
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