Tzafrir Cohen
Sun, 16 Sep 2001 12:53:52 -0700
On Sun, 16 Sep 2001, Etzion Bar-Noy wrote: > Yep. Anyone who sells 3com products, Cisco products etc. > You'll find that Access Point costs about 1800NIS (in Israel, about 260USD), > and that any wireless card costs about 1000 NIS (160USD). > Expensive. Too expensive. > > Oh, did I mention slow? What will you do with 11Mb/sec? I find 100Mb/sec > hardly sufficient. For what? for a simple home network? For X it is more than enough. For most file transfers this is enough. If there aren't too many machines sharing this bandwidth, then it is quite adaquent. One problem is that you can't "segmentize" this bandwidth (right?) BTW: what about using the phone wiring or the electricity wiring? -- Tzafrir Cohen mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Haifa Linux Club Mailing List (http://linuxclub.il.eu.org) To unsub send an empty message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]