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

[Sean Reifschneider]

On Sun, Jan 21, 2001 at 12:54:34PM -0700, Quent wrote:
>Yeah, cards are too expensive. I bet prices will come down
>since it seems like this stuff is catching on finally.

Yeah, probably.  In the last 2 years it's come down from $200 for
a PCMCIA card to $120.  I wouldn't expect it to come down more than
a regular net card though...

>Sean, which accesspoint was that cheap?

That was the AddTron.  It has some problems, little documentation and
the whole combination doesn't seem to have very good range.  But it
seems to work and was very 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.

I believe that there are some folks who have a way to configure it
without MacOS, I think it's using Windows...  DLink also has some
Access Points.  One is a broadband router/3-port 10/100 switch/AP
for $350.  Don't know how much their "just AP" is.  Didn't find it
on shopper.com.

Sean
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