Those routers, with new firmware allow you to boost antenna power, had my network working a km away

33:05 I can't be the only one who noticed you didn't actually connect using the card, it used the onboard wireless adapter to connect since that was not disabled prior to the connection attempt. It still said "Not connected" for the linksys card. Hence the link light not working on the card.

It's like a feedback blocker for mic preamps, except for computers.

I ended up building my own DOCSIS 3.0 lab with somewhat more modern hardware because of you. I posted on my channel. Love all of this stuff.

yeah I dont miss CD's, I'm not going to lie 😅

Cool do you use the PCMCIA cards in your fax machine?

The video quality isnt that bad for its age and timing.

Have to zubscribe now 😂

9:54 My first ThinkPad was a 2006 X60t and it arrived with the IBM logo, but every time I sent it in for service, it arrived with one or more logos swapped. I don't remember what repairs it needed, just that it needed several over the years and none of them had to do with the wrist rest or lid, which were what they kept replacing (each of which showed just normal wear and tear, so it was pretty thoughtful that they went ahead and swapped them anyway). But after receiving the old tricolor IBM logo from the factory, the first time it returned from repair with all logos swapped to the new ThinkPad logo that fit the IBM shape perfectly, then it returned from the next repair with one of the logos swapped back, then the other upon the next repair, and then the wrist rest was switched back again to one with the ThinkPad logo rather than IBM.

2:48 same antennas with a plastic slip cover.

Now that was cool! I am sure I an old Logitech USB 1.x web cam somewhere around here...

dial up, msn games and yahoo chat en the early 2000s, memories . 😔 so many things have left from our life for forever.

Did my Computer Science degree on one of those badboys. It was honestly quite refreshing back then to background off a task, leave it and come back to it.

I love the obligatory CS and HL on the desktop.

I will never forget how some of the earlier Linksys gear was really particular about power cycles. I nearly gave up with my router until a friend of mine pointed it out.

So hotels need to have as many devices as channels they want to put on the rf signal??

"I was there when it was written" damn I remember being like ten or twelve and laptops needing one of these until the better laptops came with them included. Ethernet was still superior

I bought one on ebay and it's having some weird software issues, the graph on the sensors page and logs page quits rendering, something tells me mine 2038ed itself early from what I was reading from the log files I could pull off it? I might try to do a video about it. Reflash the firmware or someone

I knew a lot of routers of the time used Mini PCI but PCMCIA? Shocking

Trying to find a parallel port one do you have one ?

ok I will admit I wasn't expecting to have that to have its own websserver-that is VERY impressive for something of its age. as for instabilities-firmware bug? a update maybe?

9:26 As Korean, I like that the page you randomly opened is in Korean 😄

27:43 I feel your pain regarding getting rail kits. Rarer than the hardware most of the time

I stumbled here from my recommendations which is interesting since I don't watch this type of content but you hooked me. Just subbed.

My family had one of these routers until like 2010. This brings back frustrating memories

I wonder if they added the plastic covers because most people wouldn't think about it and just put the antennas on with the plastic covers in place, and that would create a crude torque limiting clutch mechanism that would significantly reduce the number of people screwing the antenna on too forcefully, maybe causing a problem with the PCB. Normal people are wildly inattentive, especially about technology

Cmon this camera must have manual focus or something...

I still remember how upset some of us got when my favorite forum site switched from UBB to phpbb.

16:27 Funny my school did that for all of their network closets, server room and laptop carts

The camera quality is giving me flashbacks to my LEGO Studios camera from around the same time frame. That thing had a 15ft able, had no idea wireless ones existed so early!

Hmmm maybe its rebooting because of capacitor plague inside the camera or power supply?

this sounds so cool

Can I retire to your garage? Your lab looks like a dream.

Worked as an independent designer/art director for Cisco during this era - so the part about the designers being busy over at Linksys made me giggle.

Missed the best part of it - no damned cloud service required! It works without internet!

I went through the "little netgear box" phase once too when I connected my analog phones to a VOIP provider, so I understand what the little box does. I also (it was kind of a fluke, weirdly) bought a dirt-cheap 2911 box off eBay with 2-port FXO and 2-port FXS cards in it. I have done the Cisco VOIP (converted to SIP) phones w/ Asterisk (hosted on the internet) and upstream VOIP provider thing, but didn't stick with it, was a fun experiment. I'd like to experiment with my 2911 a little bit, but I'm not sure exactly what I can do with it and only the 2-port FXS card. I have a single analog modem with a serial port, but I don't have your second (internal modem) Cisco box to play with, so I can't really connect the voice line to anything like you are doing. Is the 2911 just an analog-to-digital conversion box? It doesn't have any asterisk-like or modem functionality in it? What can I do with my 2911?

It's only a matter of time before streamers start using old cameras like this for the aesthetics. It's like 9mm movies.

The sliding action remains to this day.

I was kinda surprised its not using MJPEG to stream the webcam in the browser, but I guess it wouldn't be high enough FPS so I guess the custom ActiveX control makes sense

i came back forgot to like and comment so here you go

look how beautiful this thing is.

Kind of weird to now see early to mid 2000s stuff here. I'm born in 1998, so most of the stuff you did before on this channel was always "before my time", but we are now coming to the stuff that I was playing with as a kid. Of course not the camera, but the packaging style, the installers, Windows Media Player and even those configuration utilities and IE7.

lol

Got any PoE switches for your retro rack? Try powering it with a PoE to 5v adapter? For some extra cursed networking?

There is a *slightly* newer firmware for that camera, 2.13. It *may* solve some of those wireless issues.

I had one of those! Was sad to figure out that it used ActiveX and not something browser native.

Actually had one! 😂😂

I had one of these back in college, all I remember about it is it being a massive pain to use with any third party software or non-Windows OS. I'm pretty sure it got junked in the mid 2010s.

Amazing video quality on that camera, at least I would have thought so at that time 😁 Thanks for sharing