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From: Bernie Doehner <bad@uhf.wireless.net>
To: Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com>
cc: "Tom T. Thai" <tomthai@future.net>, "Yury V. Savin" <msav@kari.ru>,
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Subject: Re: Wavelan ISA Card???
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> > > 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?

wireless lan.. RoamAbout (Wavelan) emulate Ethernet (but do it over
radio) as long as all stations hear each other.

> 
> 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?
> 
It's like an ethernet card. If you want connectivity to a backbone you
install either a access point (mucho $$$), or a FreeBSD box with one
Wavelan and one ethernet card and route between them.

Bernie