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From: "Daniel O'Callaghan" <danny@panda.hilink.com.au>
To: Hugo Pagola <hpagola@cactus.fi.uba.ar>
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On Mon, 7 Jul 1997, Hugo Pagola wrote:

> > > The Breezecom stuff is nice because it
> > > does multi-rate (it goes to lower throughput if it can't make it at 3
> > > Mbps). However, compared to the Freewave radios they are pretty deaf (fine
> > > for indoor use, but bad for long outdoor links). 
> > 
> > We are currently testing Breezecom's ``stuff'' over the same 12 mile
> > leg in my original message, currently waiting on the attenna climber
> > to crawl up the mast and deploy the 2.4GHz yagi.  A quick little
> > test says we could here the transmitter okay.
> > 
> 
> I've an offer for solitek wireless cards that claim to be  wavelan 
> compatible.
> anybody test this card?.
> The Breezecom stuff is configured with the some driver than wavelan?

Breezecom make standalone ethernet/radio adaptors.  A station adaptor 
plugs into the ethernet on the FreeBSD box.  Downside of breezecom is 
that two station adaptors can't talk to each other without going through 
a hub.  

Danny