From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 5 8:23:39 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail2.aracnet.com (mail2.aracnet.com [216.99.193.35]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1E63B37BB22 for ; Wed, 5 Jul 2000 08:23:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hamellr@aracnet.com) Received: from shell1.aracnet.com (shell1.aracnet.com [216.99.193.21]) by mail2.aracnet.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id IAA08164; Wed, 5 Jul 2000 08:23:38 -0700 Received: by shell1.aracnet.com (8.9.3) id IAA14647; Wed, 5 Jul 2000 08:23:34 -0700 Date: Wed, 5 Jul 2000 08:23:34 -0700 (PDT) From: Rick Hamell To: Jerry Dunham Cc: Chris Hill , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Wireless Laptop NICs In-Reply-To: <200007051319.IAA86362@freeside.fc.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > > 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 Cisco bought out a company that makes 'em too. I've been looking at those as they have a 25 mile radius with the auxilary atteneas and receivers. I'd like something along the same lines. I've been looking at a celluar phone modem, but I don't really want to rely on spotty service that way. If I have my own attenea I can set it up whereever I need to get better signal. At this point my only other option is Packet Radio, but I'd need to get a ham licence for that unless I can figure out how to run it in the citizen bands. :) Has anybody done this? Rick To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message