Wireless networking [was Re: [NCLUG] Re: Sean's Social Hacking]

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Yeah, cards are too expensive. I bet prices will come down
since it seems like this stuff is catching on finally.

Sean, which accesspoint was that cheap?

The ones I've found seem to go for between $600 and the price of
a good used car, except for the $299 Apple Airport, which requires a
MacOS machine to configure it.  The Apple card is only $99 but it's
only compatible with their systems, AFAIK.

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On Sun, Jan 21, 2001 at 02:18:46AM -0700, Sean Reifschneider wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 21, 2001 at 01:27:16AM -0700, thorson at aster.com wrote:
> >A year or so ago I bought a kit with two of these webgear cards and
> >two isa2pcmcia adapters for about $150 or so.  They work GREAT! Now when I
> >look at the possibility of getting another it looks like i would have to
> >spend $150 each.  What's the deal with that?  Do you know of any good
> 
> Yeah, unfortunately WebGear isn't really pushing them any more.  Not
> suprising when you consider how poor those cards are at handling
> multiple streams of traffic.  Don't get me wrong, they're cool,
> but it doesn't take much load on the air to make other sessions
> nearly or completely unusable.
> 
> On the plus side, it's not so bad for those of us with the cards.
> It's fairly easy to find people on ebay who are willing to pay
> good prices for used cards because they just want one more card to
> expand their net.  I'm thinking of doing that to move to 802.11
> cards at home (currently we've got 802.11 at the office and
> WebGear at home).
> 
> Unfortunately the 802.11 cards are $115 and up for just the PCMCIA
> card (around $160 for the card with the ISA adapter).  The cards
> that are well supported in Linux are more like $160 per card for
> PCMCIA-only.  If you have to justify 3 cards (and so far I can't
> get the $115 cards to work in AddHoc mode, which means you need
> to spend $250 for an AccessPoint), spending outrageous rates on
> a used WebGear card looks like a deal.  ;-)
> 
> I can probably come up with a spare card if you want to make me an
> offer.  :-)
> 
> Sean
> -- 
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> Sean Reifschneider, Inimitably Superfluous <jafo at tummy.com>
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