Date: Wed, 5 Jul 2000 08:19:06 -0500 (CDT) From: Jerry Dunham <jdunham@fc.net> To: chris@monochrome.org (Chris Hill) Cc: hamellr@aracnet.com (Rick Hamell), freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Wireless Laptop NICs Message-ID: <200007051319.IAA86362@freeside.fc.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.1000705030653.98943A-100000@localhost> from Chris Hill at "Jul 5, 2000 03:08:31 am"
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Chris Hill babbled: > Date: Wed, 5 Jul 2000 03:08:31 -0400 (EDT) > On Tue, 4 Jul 2000, Rick Hamell wrote: > > > Anyone have any experience with Wireless Nics for Laptops? I'm > > looking for something that has a large range preferably. Wavelan looks > > good but I've not seen them in action. Thanks in advance! > > I've used wavelan, but not in a computer (!) - it was in a wireless > control system. FWIW, it worked reliably over a distance of about 20 > feet, through a wall. The room was too small to test greater distances. WaveLANs were used extensively on the Dell campus in Austin until earlier this year. I was not involved in the installation, so can't give details, but the range was such that people would go to the picnic benches outside (about 40 meters from the nearest point of the building) to read e-mail on their notebooks between meetings. Another brand started replacing the WaveLANs a few months ago, but I'm blank as to the brand as I sit here. -- Jerry Dunham FreeBSD http://www.dunham.org jdunham@fc.net jerry@dunham.org (512)335-0674 (H) E Pluribus Unix To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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