Filed under: Peripherals, Software, Airport
Linksys offers Mac router setup tool
Linksys is offering their Linksys EasyLink Advisor (LELA) Setup Wizard as a native Mac application for managing some of their more recent router models. Similar to the Airport Setup Utility the EasyLink Advisor allows users to setup and manage their Linksys router based networks without going through the web page based setup that Mac users have traditionally had to suffer.The LELA Mac Wizard is compatible with the Linksys WRT54G2, WRT111, WRT160N, and WRT310N routers and will be on on the setup CD included in the retail packaging. It is also supposed to be available for download on Linksys' Mac page, but I cannot yet find the download link.
Update: Thanks to a reader, found a download link (select version 1.0 from the dropdown menu to reveal it).
[via Macworld]
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Reg said 12:13PM on 6-27-2008
Found the download links to the software on the product page of their new routers (right below the link to the Windows version).
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Judd said 12:34PM on 6-27-2008
Thanks for the tip, I just downloaded it at work and I'll give this a shot. Granted the web interface isn't horrible and I just want to have a more "Mac" like interface.
Stephen P said 12:28PM on 6-27-2008
no duh! Linksys has been missing out on a big market for years; I don't need the printer sharing/airtunes or even portability offered by Airport Express, so I saved myself $50 and got a standard Linksys and set it up the hard way. I suspect there are others thinking along my lines.
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Howie Isaacks said 12:52PM on 6-27-2008
It's about damned time considering that I know a lot of Mac users who have bought their routers. I've set up several of these and I've never used the "wizard" to do it. I don't think anyone beats Apple on ease of setup. That alone makes the Airport Extreme worth more than a Linksys router.
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JP said 1:39PM on 6-27-2008
Creepy
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NetworkMeUp said 2:22PM on 6-27-2008
Pure Networks, the creator of Network Magic for Mac, the company is leading the way to help secure and enhance home networks from all parts of the world. If that weren't enough, things just got easier with the LELA router setup tool for Mac now, too!
In fact, combining the LELA router setup tool with the Network Magic for Mac utility ( http://www.networkmagic.com/mac/ ) this is a sure way to give home network users the most efficient yet easy to use technology.
For those wondering, Mac OS X setup is available on all new Linksys routers: http://www.linksys.com/servlet/Satellite?c=L_Promotion_C2&childpagename=US/Layout&cid=1175245819385&pagename=Linksys/Common/VisitorWrapper
Hope this clears up any question's people may have!
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Erik said 8:20PM on 6-27-2008
Heh! No more than two and a half years ago, I was the ONLY quasi-official Mac support available at Linksys, because their official position was that they did not support Macs.
If you called Linksys for help setting up your router, got lucky enough to reach one of the tech support reps in India, and happened to mention that you had a Mac, you might get informed of the official policy and get hung-up on.
I pushed hard to get the management to believe that Macs were becoming a much more prevalent market, and suffered the slings and arrows from many jaded Windows fanboys in tech support. I doubt I had much of anything to do with this newfound acceptance that many customers are Mac users, but I'll let my ego believe what it wants. :D
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Erik said 8:21PM on 6-27-2008
Oh, and as I tried to tell people back then, there was nothing keeping Mac-using customers from accessing the html configuration page for their Linksys router, using Safari, just like Windows-using customers could with IE.
That is, unless Linksys did something as typically foolish as make the configuration pages for their routers require ActiveX.
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Dan Oblak - MacBigot.com said 10:17PM on 6-27-2008
I'm confused; what ever happened to the 'good ol days' when you could admin a small-network router with nothing but a web browser, and the appropriate credentials?
I fail to see how this is better than a browser-based interface [requiring software that has to be multi-platform, maintained, updated, supported, etc. by a company that hasn't (yet) gone out of business, thereby abandoning their product and it's customers]?
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morgenstern said 8:47PM on 6-27-2008
Auto setup crap sucks I wish people would just google stuff to learn what the hell is going on in their routers. I love Macs but geez I can't stand Mac people choose to be stupid.
Oh, and Linksys routers suck. just because they are owned by Cisco doesn't change that.
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Icelander said 10:55AM on 6-30-2008
I hope I'm not the only one who thought of "Marathon" when I read "LELA."
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peter said 3:51PM on 8-11-2008
i got my linksys router at www.consumerdepot.com
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