Hot Deal? Siemens Wireless Networking Equipment @ Circuit City

[vcarpio2]

This is awesome. I just got my notebook from BestBuy's Memorial Day Sale and was waiting for a wireless deal.

I hooked up the 2624 wireless router to my 2wire HomePortal. I disabled DHCP on the 2624 (don't know if I had to). I got 2 pcmcia nics -- a cardbus version for my new notebook and a standard pcmcia version for my old P166MHz notebook which does not have cardbus (weird, the model numbers are the same ss1021, however one box says "Cardbus 32-bit" while the other didn't) -- and they all worked! Router is on ground floor while notebooks are on second floor.

 

[Auxano]

Last week while in a bind I purchaed one of these at, god forbid, regular price at OD (Well I used a coupon).

Thanks Mwilding - saved me big time by getting one from CC and returning the OM one (No PM on account it was on clearance)

thanks again Mwilding

 

[dougtran]

Other uses:

Picked up two of the Powerline AP ( SS2521) for 29.99 each sincing I was looking to experiment with it. Also, I wanted a CF card for my Casio E-125.

Anyways, installed the Linksys WFC11 drivers on my Casio E-125, plugged in the Siemen CF card. I had to tell it to use the WPC11NDIS.DLL before it would work properly. Used the config tool and placed it in AD-HOC mode and now I can communicate with my notebook.

Doug

 

[keystroker]

is it worth going to a B&M store if the website says its out of stock?

 

[Angrymarshmello]

Hmm.....I posted this a couple days ago and no one replied so I . the thread

Anyway, a couple days ago when I found out about the clearance, I ended up Express Pickup-ing a USB adapter. Picked it up today, ended up going to a different store to see if they had the router. Saw one box on the shelf, took it to the register, turns out it was an Express Pickup Item that some employee forgot to put on hold :| But the guy was nice, ended up giving me a Microsoft Wireless Router Base Station for the same price ($29.99) I'm happy

 

[magis123]

Anyone else have problems getting this configured? Just curious, because I had my system configured on a Linksys BEFSR41 Cable Router and figured, well just switch everything to the new router and voila it should work ... so I connected my WAN line coming from my cable modem and my main PC to the new router and accessthe 192.168.254.254 IP to try to configure the router but it keeps throwing me into "WORK OFFLINE" so I cannot configure things correctly ... and then if I do make it to the configuration settings, I put in my designated MAC address and go through the rest but still return with a connection failed ...

Any suggestions from the wise ones out there?

 

[Gart]

Originally posted by: WillDeStijl
I bought the Powerline/wireless router and the powerline WAP. A friend of mine and I are going to try to network since we're both in same apartment building. Circuit City doesn't have the Siemens 2502 Powerline Ethernet adapter. Does anyone have suggestions on where to get the cheapest Homeplug 1.0 standard ethernet bridge? only one i've seen is linksys for frickin' $100!?

I know CompUSA has the Siemens for 49.99 but they're limited stock also.

As someone mentioned, it seems they're liquidating the whole inventory.

--Gart

 

[MuffD]

Originally posted by: magis123
Anyone else have problems getting this configured? Just curious, because I had my system configured on a Linksys BEFSR41 Cable Router and figured, well just switch everything to the new router and voila it should work ... so I connected my WAN line coming from my cable modem and my main PC to the new router and accessthe 192.168.254.254 IP to try to configure the router but it keeps throwing me into "WORK OFFLINE" so I cannot configure things correctly ... and then if I do make it to the configuration settings, I put in my designated MAC address and go through the rest but still return with a connection failed ...

Any suggestions from the wise ones out there?

Make sure you unplug your cable modem and router from the power outlet before you try anything. You want to treat it as if you never installed a router before. Same thing happened to me.

 

[Rhess3]

Does anyone know anything about the 20% off mentioned coupon?

 

[MuffD]

The only thing available now where I am is the Nic, switch, and powerline router.

 

[cleek]

Has anyone physically seen the Powerline 802.11b access point? The picture on the box shoes an antenna and an ethernet port, not a CF wifi adapter.This unit may be an earlier revision. Anyone actually seen one in store or installed it?

 

[allisolm]

Has anyone physically seen the Powerline 802.11b access point? The picture on the box shoes an antenna and an ethernet port, not a CF wifi adapter.This unit may be an earlier revision. Anyone actually seen one in store or installed it?

The CC number for this is SIM SS2521 and the access point on the Speedstream site is SpeedStream 2521 Powerline 802.11b Wireless Access Point which would seem to indicate that they are the same despite the many problems with CC site description/picture. The Powerline adapter has a model #2501. Hope this helps.

 

[orion7144]

Well I wouldn't pay that much more for the linksys but after getting the Dlink from Office max for $30 I am now getting rid of the POS Speedstream that I got on the last deal. It would always lock up my BB connection and all of my USB adapters would drop occasionally. Now with the Dlink no more problems.

Originally posted by: wfay
Some moron in my CC walked right by the Clearance Siemens 802.11b stuff and paid 3-4x as much for Linksys. What a retard.

 

[wfay]

Originally posted by: cleek
Has anyone physically seen the Powerline 802.11b access point? The picture on the box shoes an antenna and an ethernet port, not a CF wifi adapter.This unit may be an earlier revision. Anyone actually seen one in store or installed it?

I was concerned about this myself. Online seems to have the "newer" box/unit. At my store they still had the "old" style box showing wall wart with CF card in it. I think you will have to go to your store to find out what they have, and possibly open the box to verify the contents before buying it?

 

[Tommyboy8]

if it didn't have the CF wireless card in it, how would it be communicating with the wireless devices.... afterall isn't this a powerliness wireless access point?

or am i missing something here?

Maybe I should open the package, but i'm still waiting on DSL to be installed.

 

[Ionizer86]

is it worth going to a B&M store if the website says its out of stock?

Make sure you try checking out at cc.com but at the zip code stage, type it in. It'll tell you if your local stores have them or not. I went to the nearest store that the site said it was in stock at, and indeed, there were two PC Card 802.11b cards left.

 

[rmrf]

I called a store that was about two hours from my house, and they said they would ship me the items directly at no cost, UPS ground.

 

[mawg]

Well, got time to hook mine up tonight. unplugged all cables from my old Linksys 2-piece router/switch, plugged in the new wireless switch/router, it configured itself with my settings even though AFAIK my cable modem is not a DHCP server. Then plugged the card into my new Dell 5100 laptop, XP home found it, installed it with the CD, even before it was done I got a alert that there was a new wireless network available. Not one touch of configuration from me. I'm a Cisco/Solaris/AIX/NT admin at a large company and I was expecting a battle to get it all up and running. Instead, smooth as glass. This rocks.

$50 for wireless router w/switch and printer port and cardbus PCMCIA wireless card. This is nuts. Thanks again.

 

[vcarpio2]

Originally posted by: mawgI'm a Cisco/Solaris/AIX/NT admin at a large company and I was expecting a battle to get it all up and running. Instead, smooth as glass. This rocks.

Looks like your job security is ebbing...

 

[cleek]

Originally posted by: wfay

Originally posted by: cleek
Has anyone physically seen the Powerline 802.11b access point? The picture on the box shoes an antenna and an ethernet port, not a CF wifi adapter.This unit may be an earlier revision. Anyone actually seen one in store or installed it?

I was concerned about this myself. Online seems to have the "newer" box/unit. At my store they still had the "old" style box showing wall wart with CF card in it. I think you will have to go to your store to find out what they have, and possibly open the box to verify the contents before buying it?

I have mine and they indeed have the CF-wifi adapter.

 

[TomHinds]

Noob question:

I currently have BellSouth DSL, with a connection directly from the modified phone jack to my network card, so there is no DSL/Cable modem. Would I be able to use a DSL router with this configuration?

Thanks in advance for any help you can provide!
- T

 

[Tommyboy8]

Was able to install my powerline router... tried to configure the regular wireless router and it wouldn't work.

So I gonna be returning the wireless router and the powerline adapter.

 

[Pennstate]

If anyone needs antennas, I just returned 2 to CC in Towson, MD. Although it's cheap, I really don't need it.

<----- Has $20 for the next hot deal

 

[Lanyap]

Originally posted by: TomHinds
Noob question:

I currently have BellSouth DSL, with a connection directly from the modified phone jack to my network card, so there is no DSL/Cable modem. Would I be able to use a DSL router with this configuration?

Thanks in advance for any help you can provide!
- T

Sounds like you have an internal PCI ADSL modem in your PC. Not sure what you mean by modified phone jack. If you have an internal DSL modem you will not be able to directly connect the roouter. You may want to check in the
networking forum for different options you have.


BTW, looks like CC is no longer listing the Speedstream products on their website.

 

[Wduaqnug]

if you have problems with their stuff refer to here

http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview.cfm?catid=36&threadid=1058176