Date: Tue, 2 May 2000 15:55:17 -0400
From: Ed Padin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: RE: REQ Feedback on diamond wireless combo pack
Hi,
Thanks for the feedback. I have won an auction for a used combo pack with
ISA and PC-card adapters for $60. It seems that similar packages (both new
and used) are going on ebay for less than $100. Of course, ebay is a much
less reliable service in that someone can try to rip you off. Diamond claims
1Mbs wich is fine because my Adsl is 600Kbs downstream. I just hope that the
150ft range can translate to at least 100ft in real world scenarios. My has
is all wood walls so I should be okay.
Has anyone gotten one of these to work in linux? I probably don't need it
but would like to have the flexibility of using the 'REAL MAN'S OS'. :-)
Thanks.
>Hi, Ed!
>
>The cheapest I have found the Diamond HomeFree combo pack
>(www.shopper.com) is $123 for a desktop card and a pcmcia card.
>
>An aviator combo pack is $142 for 2ea pcmcia cards and 2ea
>dektop pcmcia
>adapters.
>
>I used to use IBM Wireless LAN Entry adapters rated at 350kbps and
>figured that they would be fine for me because my ADSL is 384/128 kbps.
>I found that when I wanted to print or transfer a file locally, it was
>excruciatingly slow.
>
>I find that the aviators are noticeably slower that 10bT, but
>tolerable.
>I would find 1/2 that speed to be intolerable.
>
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