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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]

Linksys is offering their Linksys EasyLink Advisor (LELA) Setup Wizard as a native Mac application for managing some of their more recent...
 

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peter

i got my linksys router at www.consumerdepot.com

August 11 2008 at 2:59 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Paul

I hope I'm not the only one who thought of "Marathon" when I read "LELA."

June 30 2008 at 10:31 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Emilio

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.

June 27 2008 at 8:46 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Dan Oblak - MacBigot.com

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]?

June 27 2008 at 8:36 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Erik

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.

June 27 2008 at 8:20 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Erik

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

June 27 2008 at 8:17 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
NetworkMeUp

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!

June 27 2008 at 2:21 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
JP

Creepy

June 27 2008 at 1:39 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Howie Isaacks

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.

June 27 2008 at 12:52 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Stephen P

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.

June 27 2008 at 12:27 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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