I’ve always had trouble getting my Powerbook to play nice with Linksys routers.

I needed a wireless network solution for my apartment, since I work from home and often use bandwidth-hogging programs like Transmission.app and Azerus from time to time. I needed to be able to work from any room in the house, so I opted for a medium grade wireless router. It’s a Linksys WRT54G2 and has four ethernet ports and wifi ability.

My mac doesn’t support the “Wifi Protected” setup offered by the firmware, so it was manual all the way, but I used a basic security method to protect my equiptment.

My room mate has the Xbox 360 with a wireless adapter for Xbox live, and an eeePC. I just have my Powerbook, and no other wifi peripherals.

I did the easy security first, by setting the mac address table to only allow the three devices I mentioned to access the network. Then I went a step further with 24-bit WEP security.

I was able to set the keys up with the 360 with no problems. Took all of ten minutes to set up all three devices on a secured and invisible network.

No nosy neighbors for me!