Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2003 02:32:53 EST From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [LIB] Wireless yada-yada
In a message dated 1/15/2003 5:53:23 PM Pacific Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > I just know some of you out there > have the killer setup - share it with us! > > Chester > So far i've found the Orinoco cards the best. They were made by Lucent before, but know their owned by Proxim. Regardless, they are one of the best cards out there available to the consumer. The price range absolutely varies! The Dell Truemobile 1150 (what I use) is a Orinoco Gold card rebadged with Dell. IBM has a card out there too, but I forgot the specifics. I think the Gold cards sell under $70 on ecost.com. The Orinoco Gold cards basically have a external antenna jack that allows you to further amplify it's signal with an antenna. I use to use the D-link 650 except mine came with a PCI adapter, but I only used the card in the laptop. The PCI adapter is basically a Ricoh PCMCIA adapter that works with anything PCMCIA cardbus. The card fluctuated alot more than the Orinoco, but i've seen a modification of this card but it's fair too risky and costly for me. http://alan.clegg.com/802/dwl.html Basically, we're talking about 802.11b stuff here. I haven't touched any "a" stuff and am only familiar with "b". The brands of routers out there are mostly compatible with everything 802.11b if thats what the router was made for. I've been able to get on linksys, SMC and D-link routers with my Orinoco Gold card. As for 11mb vs. 22mb, I rarely deal with file transfers through my wireless router since it was very unstable with the D-link card and SMC router. I basically hardwire my stuff to the router and then i'll probably get 22mb transfer rates. William ---------------------------------- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] ************************************************************** http://libretto.basiclink.com - Libretto mailing list http://www.silverace.com/libretto/ - Archives -------TO UNSUBSCRIBE------- Reply to any of the list messages. The reply mail should be addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Then replace any text on the message's subject line: cmd:unsubscribe --------TO UNSUBSCRIBE DIGEST------ Do above but with this on subject line: cmd:unsubscribe digest **************************************************************
