At 2:38 PM +0200 8/18/00, 221BSB Kruczkowski, Raphael wrote:
>Hi all,
>I'm thinking about getting a IMAC for my mother, I want to get the Apple
>AirPort wireless link for it.
>My question is, will the AirPort wireless link work with some other
>company's wireless?
>
>I was reading that the Apple's AirPort uses the 802.11 DSSS standard. I
>also have a IBM laptop that I would like to use the wireless, but I bet that
>the Apple PCMCIA card will not work in a PC, So what I want to do is get
>Cisco's Aironet's PCMCIA card (won't it be cool having a IBM laptop with a
>big Cisco card sticking out of it sitting on the lawn browsing the net? with
>NO cables???) to access the apple hub.
AirPort (Rebadged Lucent), WaveLan/Orinoco and Aironet all work together
when I've tested them. It was pretty seamless. Same goes for any other
802.11-compliant DSSS wireless LAN device. Nokia makes an 802.11 card that
I've tested with Aironet as well.
I'm less impressed with the AirPort base station itself, but it's really
aimed at the SOHO market, not the enterprise market, and most of my
objections revolve around the sorts of tradeoffs made there.
Do note that you will need either a Mac or a third-party java-based config
app to configure the AirPort base station. This isn't much of a problem in
practice, but it is annoying that there's no serial-console-based interface
to the device.
Ben
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