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Posted by Chad Everett on March 22, 2005

Traveler Digital Camera »

With all of Peter's talk about his digital cameras, I figured I'd throw my own hat into the ring.

A few weeks ago, I purchased a Traveler 6.31 Megapixel Digital Camera, from, of all places, Aldi. As mentioned in the comments, the camera appears to be a rebranded Vivitar Vivicam 4000.

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Posted by Chad Everett on March 22, 2005

Happy Anniversary to Me »

Well, Denise was involved too, so you can wish her a happy one as well. But regardless, today marks our two-year anniversary. I was trying to hit it on the hour (about 5pm), but too much other stuff came up, so this'll just have to do.

Posted by Chad Everett on March 22, 2005

Wireless Networking with D-Link »

As mentioned, I've recently been tweaking the network, and today I was finally able to make it all work again. our wireless had been a bit spotty since making the changes. It turns out that the big problem is that D-Link devices don't like talking to non-D-Link devices (or vice versa) at anything over 11 Mbps. Once I set the access point (DI-614+) to a max of 11 Mbps, and the repeater (DWL-800AP+) to connect to the access point, the whole house is wired again. Er, unwired. You know what I mean.

One other quirk was that the repeater requires a MAC address to connect to when it's trying to establish itself on the network. My gut would say that this is the wireless MAC address of the router. My gut was wrong. It was the Ethernet MAC address (which is incidentally listed in the quickstart guide). After setting that correctly, it all just worked.

And for another default IP address - the DWL-800AP+ has a default IP address of 192.168.0.30. Wacky, but it's easily changed.