workaround
comcast took down (crashed?) our high speed internet. tv too. area-wide they say. 6-8 hours to fix it they say.
in the past, i would ‘squat’ on a neighbor’s high speed internet until mine came back up, but nobody/nothing else.
using the dd-wrt firmware on my wrt54g, i changed the wireless mode from “access point” to “client” and linked it to the neighbor’s wireless network 🙂
the neighbor’s high speed internet is considerably slower than ours (about 1/10th of ours), but it works. it appears they have WOW‘s 112k/112k package.
now, everything on the lan here at the apartment is online, not just me. 😀
with my wireless relegated to providing internet instead of wireless, i put up another “access point” i had laying around (yes, i had one laying around. doesn’t everybody?)