Date: Sun, 3 Sep 2000 23:19:55 -0400 From: Peter Radcliffe <pir@pir.net> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: affordable wireless Message-ID: <20000903231954.D10041@pir.net> In-Reply-To: <LMEMIKHGPPEEMMMMGIENMEKJCAAA.manek@ecst.csuchico.edu>; from manek@ecst.csuchico.edu on Sun, Sep 03, 2000 at 08:07:38PM -0700 References: <LMEMIKHGPPEEMMMMGIENMEKJCAAA.manek@ecst.csuchico.edu>
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"Sameer R. Manek" <manek@ecst.csuchico.edu> probably said: > My only affordable solution so far is to use the Apple AirPort base station, > and wavelan pcmcia cards, but I don't know if they can co-exist, and the > AirPort needs a Macintosh to configure. Not true. Java configuration; http://edge.mcs.drexel.edu/GICL/people/sevy/airport/ SNMP MIB; ftp://ucd-snmp.ucdavis.edu/contrib/wavelan-mib-0.1-1.tar.gz > My idea of affordable for this is less then $500, the lucent wavelan > solution works out to about $900 startup, that's a little out of my > budget. The newish lucent RG-1000 is under $400 with a silver card, around $320 without, and officially PC configurable. Personally I use a $100 486 laptop as a router, but will buy either an airport or an RG-1000 to get bridging and BSS (non-ad-hoc) which means powersave mode on the laptop clients which gives real battery life. You can put a gold card (and sell the internal silver) and put a range extender in an airport, if you're willing to lose the warrenty. P. -- pir pir@pir.net pir@net.tufts.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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