On Fri, Jan 05, 2001 at 11:00:02AM -0800, Ben Barrett wrote:
> I thought the NIC's were point-to-point, and were NOT multipoint...
> it's also expensive and seems silly to me to buy the pcmcia card, the
> pci-to-pcmcia adaptor, and the extension antennae...
> but I guess you'd build the antennae. The WNAP is all-in-one,
> cut I know nothing about increasing its antenna :/
You can use NICs as both. Open up an Airport, its essentially a cheap AMD 486 (x86)
embedded motherboard with a cheap pcmcia controller and a wavelan card.
The waveland card is somewhat expensive, the pcmcia to pci adapter is not, the
extension antenna would be expensive. The trouble with all-in-one units is that you
need additional hardware (ie: a unix box) anyways to do more advanced stuff, so why
not just skip the WNAP access point, and just use a box? Which ends up being cheaper,
at least for the stuff I'd want to do.
jakob
