On Saturday 06 Sep 2003 7:05 pm, Tom Brinkman wrote: > On Saturday September 6 2003 11:02 am, Derek Jennings wrote: > > On Saturday 06 Sep 2003 3:03 pm, 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?? Nowadays adsl modems and nic's almost always work > > > with Linux (my Nokia Modem/Router and Generic NIC work great > > > under 9.1/Cooker). What are the pitfalls to watch out for to go > > > wireless? What websites for wirelss under Linux do you > > > recommend? Any brands known to work, not work with Linux?? > > > Right now on TradeMe.co.nz there seems to be a good deal on the > > > item listed below (thoughts?): > > > > > > 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. > > > > > > I can get these now for NZ$230 > > > > > > Cheers > > > > > > Jason Greenwood > > > > There is a list of wireless cards and their drivers here > > http://www.linux-wlan.org/docs/wlan_adapters.html > > > > I know from experience that Mandrake works with anything > > Orinoco based works 'out of the box'. > > > > The Benq AWL100 uses the Prism 2.5 chip set which uses the > > wlan-ng driver which I know was not included in Mandrake 9.0 but > > I was able to get it working by compiling it. > > > > I do not know about Mandrake 9.1 > > > > HTH > > > > derek > > Derek, I'd reckon you know. I read lately that wireless at best > only delivers about 80% of the connection speed. An that the > further you get from the source, the percentage drops further. At > 10 meters it's all but gone. True?
Actually you will be lucky to get more than 5 Mbps of 'goodput' out of an 11Mbps wireless card. I spent some time recently putting together a wireless router for a small ISP here in the UK, and that was the best throughput I measured, (side by side on the bench) and agreed with info I have read around the web. Its the packet overhead and forward error correction that limits it. http://reviews.cnet.com/Siemens_SpeedStream_Powerline_802_11b_Wireless_Access_Point/4505-3334_7-20684674-4.html http://www.cs.umd.edu/~shankar/Papers/802-11b-profile-1.pdf I found some chip sets were better than others. Cisco Aironet was a bit faster than Orinoco/Agere , and Atmel (usb) was a fair bit faster than Prism 2.5 (usb) There is not much in it so do not base your choice just on my say so. derek -- ---------------------------------- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org
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