Has anyone seen a system that can be used to create a wireless network between two houses in a neighborhood? Say, about eight houses apart?
Regards, Dustin At 11:58 AM 2/19/2002 -0600, you wrote: >Would probably have to buy a significant amount >to get any good price breaks...but don't know for sure. >Just my experience. > >I've been playing with the wireless for a while now >but have used access points. But what you say is >true, most software I've seen allows one of the >cards to function as the accesspoint. It just has >to be up in running. Not a problem in a smaller >network. > >I'm using the NetGear stuff. It has linux drivers >also but haven't had time to set it. I've found >the NetGear stuff to be reliable and durable >in a small LAN(100+ pc's). Even though it's >Nortel's budget line product. > >Am implementing a copper Gigabit lab >and will use netgear's new 24 port 10/100/1000 hub. > >Read good stuff about the Orinoco. Can't remember >off hand the difference between the Silver and Gold >other than cost. I would look at WEP standard it supports. > >my 2c's- >-joe > > >On Tuesday 19 February 2002 11:40 am, you wrote: > > I've been considering a purchase of 3 HP Lucent > > ORiNOCO Silver Wireless PCMCIA cards for my home > > network. I chose this card specifically because there > > are Linux drivers for it and an external antenna can > > be connected to it using a standard adapter cable > > (like > > http://www.nxgenstore.com/nxgen/itemdesc.asp?CartId=3890601UINHB791&ic=WRJC > >MW19M) to increase the range. > > > > Just so you know, a wireless access point or base unit > > is not required: > > http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/wireless/2001/03/06/recipe.html, > > which is the reason I want to buy 3 cards: 1 for my > > firewall/gateway using a PCMCIA slot adapter, and 2 > > for my 2 laptops. You can save a lot of money by not > > having to purchase the base WAP unit. > > > > I found a pretty good deal at: > > http://shop.store.yahoo.com/justdeals/luctecorsil1.html, > > but I was thinking that a large group could get a > > better deal by making a big purchase of the same WLAN > > cards at one time. > > > > Does anyone have experience with making volume > > purchases for a group like this? How well does it > > work? > > > > Thanks, > > John Hebert > > > > ps: By the way, I am one of the group coordinators at > > the Baton Rouge Linux Users Group: www.brlug.net. > > pps: anyone know of other Louisiana Linux User Groups > > that I should contact? > > > > > > __________________________________________________ > > Do You Yahoo!? > > Yahoo! Sports - Coverage of the 2002 Olympic Games > > http://sports.yahoo.com > > _______________________________________________ > > Shreveport/Bossier Linux Users Group > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > http://www.sblug.org/mailman/listinfo/sblug-list > >-- >Joe Harwell, Instructor >Louisiana Technical College-Sabine Valley Campus >1255 Fisher Road >Many, LA 71449 >ph 318 256 4101 fax 318 256 4134 >_______________________________________________ >Shreveport/Bossier Linux Users Group >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >http://www.sblug.org/mailman/listinfo/sblug-list --- Dustin Puryear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Information Systems Contractor http://members.telocity.com/~dpuryear PGP Key available at http://www.us.pgp.net In the beginning the Universe was created. This has been widely regarded as a bad move. - Douglas Adams ================================================ BRLUG - The Baton Rouge Linux User Group Visit http://www.brlug.net for more information. Send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] to change your subscription information. ================================================
