Go with linksys cards and routers they are great. I have a wireless network setup at home for my wife and I and its great. The laptop cards are down to 79.00 each and the wireless router DSL/Cable plus four ports for regular nics, is down to 220.00 I believe.
-Shawn Regan -----Original Message----- From: Nick McClure [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2002 10:02 PM To: CF-Community Subject: Re: I want to set up a wireless home network... I don't know if the Airport Card will work in the PC, I know a PC with a Lucent card will connect to an AirPort. Keep in mind, the Apple stuff is all built by Lucent. At 01:21 PM 1/10/2002 +1100, you wrote: >Not quite sure what you mean by access points Brent, so this may not be >of use, but here's how the airport works. > >The Airport cards go into the client, Mac or PC (apparently). In a Mac >they are just a pcmcia card that sits in an internal slot. These cards >connect your client to the Airport Base Station. The Airport Base >Station has a built-in 56k modem in it, and an ethernet port. I believe >the new version of the base has 2 ethernet ports in it. > >Depending on your setup you could a) connect the airport directly to >phone line and connect with the modem. the airport base has built in NAT >and DHCP etc. or b) connect the airport base to a hub (or a gateway pc) >and then get the pc connecting to the Internet. > >Unless I am misunderstanding you, you shouldn't need anything except the >airport base station and the airport cards for the clients. > >N > > >Brent Goldman wrote: > > > > Nick, > > > > We're not going to use any wires more than we have to on this network, > and I > > know that if I go with wireless, I would have to live with an 11MB network > > rather than 100MB, which is completely fine. > > > > Does anyone know about access points? > > > > Thanks > > -Brent > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: Nick Texidor [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > > Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2002 5:11 PM > > > To: CF-Community > > > Subject: Re: I want to set up a wireless home network... > > > > > > > > > I only have experience with Airport, and it is a dream to install and > > > configure on a Mac network. I haven't tried the PC's on it, but > > > apparently it can be done so I may check that out next. > > > > > > I suppose the only consideration to make is that have a hard > > > cable to a > > > network card will give you the 100mb speed (if you have a card capable > > > of that speed) whereas you won't get the same transfer rate with a > > > wireless network. (Correct me if I'm wrong here someone!) > > > > > > N > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Brent Goldman wrote: > > > > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > > > So is the AirPort one of the best wireless routers? What > > > about access > > > > points? We only have one computer per room, so it would be > > > kind of a waste > > > > of money to spend something like $100 per room on an access > > > point, plus > > > > whatever the wireless NIC costs. Is there any way to do > > > 802.11b without an > > > > access point, or are there cards that come with access > > > points built in that > > > > actually work? > > > > > > > > Thanks > > > > -Brent > > > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > > > From: Nick McClure [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > > > > Sent: Tuesday, January 08, 2002 7:33 PM > > > > > To: CF-Community > > > > > Subject: Re: I want to set up a wireless home network... > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > You can download software off the Internet to manage your > > > > > AirPort on a > > > > > Windows Based system. > > > > > > > > > > I cannot remember what it is called, but it is out there and > > > > > works quite > > > > > well from what I hear. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > At 06:57 PM 1/8/2002 -0800, you wrote: > > > > > >Hi everyone, > > > > > > > > > > > >I want to set up a wireless home network soon, and would > > > > > prefer to use > > > > > >802.11b as our standard. I've heard good things about the > > > > > Apple AirPort, > > > > > >and although it's compatible with PC's, but you can only > > > > > manage the settings > > > > > >with a Mac. Does anyone know of any good wireless routers > > > > > that could share > > > > > >a cable internet connection with four computers that just have > > > > > >802.11b-compatible network cards in them? Do I also need to > > > > > get access > > > > > >point for them? I'm kinda confused about this whole > > > > > wireless networking > > > > > >thing... > > > > > > > > > > > >Thanks > > > > > >-Brent > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ______________________________________________________________________ Your ad could be here. Monies from ads go to support these lists and provide more resources for the community. http://www.fusionauthority.com/ads.cfm Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
