On Sun, 2003-09-07 at 01:55, Jason Greenwood wrote: > Ok all, I have decided to ditch the wires and go wireless for my ADSL > Modem/router/Accesspoint and NIC at home. What is the guts of it??
Its cool... but there are drawbacks... > Nowadays adsl modems and nic's almost always work with Linux. What are > the pitfalls to watch out for to go wireless? Chipsets that are not supported by linux... the ACX one is in alpha at the moment, but apparently does work. Speed is another annoyance... 11 Mbit wireless has more overhead than wired, and will give lower throughput. The fastest I've seen is 508 kbytes/second... but its normally around 400-450 kbytes/sec. This is not fast enough to stream a divx over (much to my annoyance) > What websites for wirelss > under Linux do you recommend? Any brands known to work, not work with > Linux?? Right now on TradeMe there seems to be a good deal on the item > listed below (thoughts?): http://www.linux-wlan.org/docs/wlan_adapters.html4.html Big list of cards and chipsets and linux support. Very useful. > Benq AWL-700 wireless router 802.11b > in perfect condition, as new still in box with manuals and cd WITH benq > 11Mbps wireless lan pc card(AWL100) both work together great. BenQ 802.11b AWL-100 PCMCIA Prism2/2.5/3 So it should work perfectly with the orinoco/hermes modules. It doesn't really matter what the AP is, as long as it has well-designed aerial(s). Most of them work as a transparent bridge, so your wireless segment can see all the wired desktop machines without a problem. My home AP is a PCI card in the server, running a module called hostap. It provides almost all access point functions, but theres rather a lot of iptables fiddling.
