From owner-freebsd-mobile Tue Jun 18 9:39:12 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from odin.ac.hmc.edu (Odin.AC.HMC.Edu [134.173.32.75]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B453C37B406; Tue, 18 Jun 2002 09:39:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from odin.ac.hmc.edu (IDENT:brdavis@localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by odin.ac.hmc.edu (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g5IGd7dq029778; Tue, 18 Jun 2002 09:39:07 -0700 Received: (from brdavis@localhost) by odin.ac.hmc.edu (8.12.3/8.12.3/Submit) id g5IGd7PR029777; Tue, 18 Jun 2002 09:39:07 -0700 Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2002 09:39:07 -0700 From: Brooks Davis To: Doug Barton Cc: freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Need wireless pccard NIC advice Message-ID: <20020618093907.A19207@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> References: <3D0EF145.E7DFD4C8@FreeBSD.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="vtzGhvizbBRQ85DL" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <3D0EF145.E7DFD4C8@FreeBSD.org>; from DougB@FreeBSD.ORG on Tue, Jun 18, 2002 at 01:37:25AM -0700 X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-milter (http://amavis.org/) on odin.ac.hmc.edu Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org --vtzGhvizbBRQ85DL Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Jun 18, 2002 at 01:37:25AM -0700, Doug Barton wrote: > I've pretty much decided to go buy an aironet 350 wireless pccard NIC > for the laptop I've borrowed from work; an IBM a21e. I'm wondering if > anyone has had good experiences with this combo, or the 350 in general. > Doug Ambrisko almost has me convinced, but I thought I'd ask... I've also noticed that in some situations, my Lucent card out performs my Aironet 350. Specificaly, I get good performance on my parent's deck (connecting to a Lucnet RG-1000 in the basement), but <40% packet loss with the 350. In general, I've been a happy user of the 350s and we're using them almost exclusivly at work. > Also, I've been considering buying a PCI version of the aironet and > connecting with ad-hoc mode. Are there any downsides to this, vs. > connecting to a base station?=20 You can't do powersaving without an AP which may be an issue. Otherwise there isn't much difference that I know of. -- Brooks --=20 Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. PGP fingerprint 655D 519C 26A7 82E7 2529 9BF0 5D8E 8BE9 F238 1AD4 --vtzGhvizbBRQ85DL Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE9D2IqXY6L6fI4GtQRAjp4AJ4jtpxagXkwzdIVlp9CddqS0Mwn2gCgv8XX tkbe4YpFb628YAkOm98xmsA= =ZP1N -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --vtzGhvizbBRQ85DL-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message