any corelation to apple airport? I know that the apple hardware is from
lucent, and that the airport basestation is a PCMCIA wavLAN card. I have
interest in this as I'm moving to a house with the cornputer room on a
different floor than my room, and want my g4 in my room.
tack
On Sat, 13 Oct 2001, Sach Jobb wrote:
> My friend, Bruce, recently bought out a large chunk of lucent's 802.11b
> equipment and it selling it for _really_ cheap. If you've been thinking
> about getting into wireless ethernet, or expanding what you already have,
> this is a great opportunity.
>
> The Cards:
>
> PCMCIA 802.11b "Silver" Card: $60
> USB Network Adapter ("Silver"): $70
> USB Network Adapter ("Gold"): $85
> PCMCIA to PCI adapter: $40
> "indoor" range antenna: $50 (hehehe)
>
> (i think the difference between silver and gold is just the level of WEP
> encryption, silver doing 64bit and gold doing 128bit).
>
>
> WAPs, Bridges and Routers:
>
> RG-1000 Soho WAP Kit: $240 (basic kit, comes with 1 client too)
> AP-500 Access Point: $250 (used to create large 802.11 lans)
> OR-1000 Eth Splitter: $520 (more versitle ap-500, power from eth cable!)
>
> That RG-1000 Soho WAP kit is pretty impressive, it does DHCP, NAT, bridges
> to ethernet, if you don't have ethernet you can use a dial-up account.
> It's quite small and light. It also comes with one card.
>
> He's got some other more serious range stuff for connecting networks that
> are like, miles away from each other if you are into that sort of thing.
>
> anyway if you are interested or have questions email me, or just email
> bruce directly at [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> Cheers,
> sach
>
>
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