Network Managability and XM to Increase Prices.

Long time no post. That is mainly due to the fact of school, work, and hanging out with my wonderful girlfriend. So whats happened in the past few week? Quite a bit!

First off, I finally got my AT&T 6800G Router to function as a Wireless Access Point. Why and how did I do that? First off, if you look at the pricing for a router and wireless access point, you'll see that access points run about $100-$150 while routers can be bought for $9.99 and up after rebates. So now on to how I did this. First you need to login to your wireless router that you want to become the wireless access point (usually this is done by plugging a LAN cable from the PC's NIC card into a LAN port on the router). After that you need to turn off dhcp (since there can only be one dhcp server on your network, and for me this was my wired linksys router). Then go and change the device's IP to correspond with your existing LANs IP Address (for most routers it's either 192.168.1.1 or 192.168.0.1). For me I had to put the AT&T router on the Linksys' network. So I did and then plugged the lan cable from my Linksys router into a LAN port on the AT&T router. And there ya go, a completely cheap and inexpensive Wireless Access Point.

Also I happened to stumble across a great Network Management Application called Network Magic. It's currently in the Beta Testing stages but it's well worth the free download, at least for now. Will the application eventually be sold? Most likely but for now go to here.

I've also been informed that XM Satellite Radio is uping it current price from $9.99 for basic service to $12.95. The new price will include basic service, free online access, and High Voltage (The Channel featuring Opie and Anthony). The price comes as a bit of a suprise but then again I'm already paying $11.98 for basic service and High Voltage. So another dollar for the online access isn't a big deal to me, especially figuring I've been getting it for free anyways, due to a problem with XM's javascript sessions. You can see the news for yourself here.

Also check out the links of the day:
Known Hole Aided in T-Mobile Breach
More On the Paris Hilton Hacking

Anyways I'm off for now so until next time!