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Thanks to a tip from Noel, I went to CompUSA today and picked up a Linksys WET111 (a wireless ethernet bridge) this evening. I brought it home, and realized what he meant by “These are a bitch to setup the first time, but work like butter…” as the damn thing doesn’t come with a Mac configuration utility (or if it does, I couldn’t get this old iMac to read the CD).

Luckily, I brought home my laptop from the office just for this sole reason. The setup utility was a snap to use under XP. I plugged in the little bridge via its ethernet cable, loaded the CD into the CD tray, and viola, the CD auto-ran, and the config utility came up. A few ‘yes’ buttons and I was all configured. I reset the bridge, and checked it on the PC. It worked fine.

I unplugged it, and plugged it into the Mac… and viola! I’m now surfing wirelessly on ‘ol Faithful via a Linksys Wireless Ethernet Bridge.

Thanks for the tip Noel. (this means I can now be more productive in my non-office hours again)