Date: Tue, 10 Jun 1997 22:07:24 -0600 (MDT) From: Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com> To: Bernie Doehner <bad@uhf.wireless.net> Cc: Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com>, "Tom T. Thai" <tomthai@future.net>, "Yury V. Savin" <msav@kari.ru>, freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Wavelan ISA Card??? Message-ID: <199706110407.WAA02557@rocky.mt.sri.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95.970610234833.456D-100000@uhf.wdc.net> References: <199706102154.PAA00875@rocky.mt.sri.com> <Pine.BSF.3.95.970610234833.456D-100000@uhf.wdc.net>
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> > *extremely* slow and pretty useless for real work. (I got 5K/sec out of > > them with the base station and a laptop running Win95.) > > 5k/sec? With ISA Wavelan on the FreeBSD side and a Dec RoamAbout (Wavelan > clone) on my Linux laptop I get 1.6 Mb/s! That's great. Is this a point-point link, or in a wireless LAN? > > I didn't buy them, but they were bought because they were > > cheap/cheap/cheap. $950 for the base-station, and $250/PCMCIA card. > > $250 I could live with. The $950 is a bit pricy. How does the AT&T Wavelan stuff work? The Xircom stuff has a 'base station' that you stick on your ethernet segment that broadcasts data to/from the machines with Xircom cards in them. Is the WaveLAN stuff at all like that? Nate
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