However, there is a small snag. After playing with the WET11 for several hours, I could simply not get out to the Internet. I could see the DSL router, and all the other computers on the network, but no Internet. This really had me baffled, because the WET11 doesn't really do any filtering; it's supposed to just pass the information through. Hooking up a cable proved that the settings on the Mac weren't the issue, and I spent quite a long time on the phone with Linksys tech support to no avail.
Hooking the WET11 up to a PC worked like a charm. On the Mac, it was restriced to the LAN only. It just didn't make any sense. I finally, out of desperation more than anything else, tried changing my whole network addressing sheme, and lo and behold, now everything works fine. So, if you want to use the WET11, there are a couple of things you need to know.
- To set it up with a Mac, you simply hook it up with a cable and type it's address, which happens to be 192.168.1.225 into your browser.
- To do this, your own computer's IP address has to be in the same range, i.e. it has to be 192.168.1.(some number between 1 and 255). Go to System Preferences -> Network to set this.
- When you configure your network you cannot use 192.168.0.x I haven't tried any other ones, but 192.168.1.x works.
If you use the 192.168.1.x address range, and if you don't have any other devices at 192.168.1.225, then the WET11 should work right out of the box. You don't even need to set it up, unless you want to enable WEP. WEP, BTW, is not secure, do a web search before you trust any data to it.

