>Hi
>
>Does anyone else here have a 3Com Officeconnect 11g access point
>(3crwe454g72)?
>
>There's a security advisory (http://secunia.com/advisories/13942/), and
>when I upgrade the firmware to 1.03.07A I lose wireless connectivity-
>even after defaulting and reconfiguring the WAP, and with or withoutn
>WEP turned on (I use WEP, not WPA because I have a client that doesn't
>support WPA). If I then put the old firmware back, set to defaults, and
>reconfigure, it works again.
>
>I tried to place a support call to 3Com, but they're not interested as
>the WAP is out of warranty.
>
>This isn't a massive concern, as my wireless is seperately firewalled,
>and to exploit it you'd need access to the LAN or to have cracked the
>WEP (and I don't think anyone's going to be interested enough to do
>that), but I'd still prefer it upgraded.
>
>Chris

> On Mon, 07 Mar 2005 18:59:26 GMT, Chris Bartram
><n***@delete.me.piglet-net.net> wrote:
>
>>Hi
>>
>>Does anyone else here have a 3Com Officeconnect 11g access point
>>(3crwe454g72)?
>>
>>There's a security advisory (http://secunia.com/advisories/13942/), and
>>when I upgrade the firmware to 1.03.07A I lose wireless connectivity-
>>even after defaulting and reconfiguring the WAP, and with or withoutn
>>WEP turned on (I use WEP, not WPA because I have a client that doesn't
>>support WPA). If I then put the old firmware back, set to defaults, and
>>reconfigure, it works again.
>>
> I have the same WAP, and my firmware upgrade to 1.03.07A
> went smoothly. Try it again perhaps?
>

> on Wed, 09 Mar 2005 at 08:05 GMT, Paul Smith wrote:
>
>>On Mon, 07 Mar 2005 18:59:26 GMT, Chris Bartram
>><n***@delete.me.piglet-net.net> wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Hi
>>>
>>>Does anyone else here have a 3Com Officeconnect 11g access point
>>>(3crwe454g72)?
>>>
>>>There's a security advisory (http://secunia.com/advisories/13942/), and
>>>when I upgrade the firmware to 1.03.07A I lose wireless connectivity-
>>>even after defaulting and reconfiguring the WAP, and with or withoutn
>>>WEP turned on (I use WEP, not WPA because I have a client that doesn't
>>>support WPA). If I then put the old firmware back, set to defaults, and
>>>reconfigure, it works again.
>>>
>>
>>I have the same WAP, and my firmware upgrade to 1.03.07A
>>went smoothly. Try it again perhaps?
>>
>
>
> Well, upgrade went smoothly here as well, but I lost connectivity to my
> 802.11b devices (one at that time). 802.11g seemed to perform
> better/larger range after the upgrade.
>
> Regards, Peter

> Hi Chris,
> After some testing I realized that my thruput was only 6Mbit/s even
> though my system said 54Mbit (the PC with a 3Com WLANcard was 1 meter
> from the access point).
> I checked with another PC and another 3Com WLAN card, but the result
> was the same.
> The test was just to copy a fairly large file and measure the time it
> took.
> The version in the access point was 1.03.07A
> I know that I have had at least 20mbit/s earlier so I started to
> systematically downgrade the version to previous ones.
> When I returned to version 1.02.11 then I got my 20Mbit/s again !!!
> So now I am using this version, but when I read about the 1.03.07C I am
> interested to test that one, so Chris please send it to me.
> magnus.extra@_removethis_telia.com
> Have you guys verified what real throughput you have ?
>
>

>Magnus wrote:
>> Hi Chris,
>> After some testing I realized that my thruput was only 6Mbit/s even
>> though my system said 54Mbit (the PC with a 3Com WLANcard was 1 meter
>> from the access point).
>> I checked with another PC and another 3Com WLAN card, but the result
>> was the same.
>> The test was just to copy a fairly large file and measure the time it
>> took.
>> The version in the access point was 1.03.07A
>> I know that I have had at least 20mbit/s earlier so I started to
>> systematically downgrade the version to previous ones.
>> When I returned to version 1.02.11 then I got my 20Mbit/s again !!!
>> So now I am using this version, but when I read about the 1.03.07C I am
>> interested to test that one, so Chris please send it to me.
>> magnus.extra@_removethis_telia.com
>> Have you guys verified what real throughput you have ?
>>
>>
>I didn't do any throughput testing, I just found that 1.03.07A broke my
>802.11b client (definitely) and my g client too (probably). Changing
>back to 1.03.07 cured it, as did 1.03.07C, which is now on it's way to
>both of you. Performace seems OK too.
>
>Chris