From owner-freebsd-current Sat Dec 9 10:40:13 2000 From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Dec 9 10:40:11 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from rover.village.org (rover.village.org [204.144.255.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 398F337B400 for ; Sat, 9 Dec 2000 10:40:10 -0800 (PST) Received: from harmony.village.org (harmony.village.org [10.0.0.6]) by rover.village.org (8.11.0/8.11.0) with ESMTP id eB9Ie7s58634; Sat, 9 Dec 2000 11:40:08 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Received: from harmony.village.org (localhost.village.org [127.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.9.3/8.8.3) with ESMTP id LAA24454; Sat, 9 Dec 2000 11:40:07 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <200012091840.LAA24454@harmony.village.org> To: Christopher Masto Subject: Re: Lucent Orinoco Gold PCCard? Cc: Wes Peters , Charlie Root , Doug Ambrisko , Sascha Luck , current@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 09 Dec 2000 13:40:51 EST." <20001209134051.A391@netmonger.net> References: <20001209134051.A391@netmonger.net> <200012052105.NAA19124@whistle.com> <3A2F02BB.2882A98A@MexComUSA.Net> <20001207175530.A23355@netmonger.net> <3A31CFC4.281CBCE2@softweyr.com> <20001209012429.A673@netmonger.net> <3A32757D.20B44C64@softweyr.com> Date: Sat, 09 Dec 2000 11:40:07 -0700 From: Warner Losh Sender: imp@harmony.village.org Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message <20001209134051.A391@netmonger.net> Christopher Masto writes: : > If you're only 10 feet from the base, save several hundred dollars and buy : > a 4 meter patch cable. : : Thanks, that hadn't occurred to me. It depends on the 10' :-) My laptop roams between 3' and 75' of my closest outlet. Usually 5-10'. Patch cables are cheaper and faster (when was the last time you got 100Mbps over wireless?). Wireless cards are easier to expand the net with and easier to take to a slightly different place :-) Warner -- Seen on the door of an egineer at sun: "We're the dot in vm.core" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message