From owner-freebsd-mobile Tue Dec 5 20:54: 1 2000 From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Dec 5 20:53:59 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AF62A37B400 for ; Tue, 5 Dec 2000 20:53:55 -0800 (PST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by wantadilla.lemis.com (8.11.0/8.9.3) id eB64rW421197; Wed, 6 Dec 2000 15:23:32 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from grog) Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2000 15:23:32 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: Warner Losh Cc: Wesley Morgan , mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ray committed Message-ID: <20001206152332.A21187@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <200011130313.UAA03395@harmony.village.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <200011130313.UAA03395@harmony.village.org>; from imp@village.org on Sun, Nov 12, 2000 at 08:13:20PM -0700 Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Sender: grog@wantadilla.lemis.com Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sunday, 12 November 2000 at 20:13:20 -0700, Warner Losh wrote: > In message Wesley Morgan writes: >> How would you say these cards compare to a wavelan or aironet? > > I think a couple more words are in order. > > They work OK. However, they are slower than the 2.0M aironet that I > used at BSDcon. They are a lot slower than the 11M wavelan cards. > They have a higher packet loss rate than the aironet or wavelan cards > I've used here and at BSDcon. Their only advantage is cost. They are > a lot cheaper than all other wireless cards because webgear went out > of business and have been dumped in the market. I paid like $120 for > my pair. > > So, comapred to the wavelan and aironet they suck. But compared to > nothing, they aren't too bad. I discussed this with Chris Yeoh at Linuxcare last week. He has no problems with packet loss; in fact, he considers them better in that respect than the Orinoco cards. Greg -- Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message