I have friends who live in a big house in the country and work from home.They have a home office with a dialup modem which only gets connected at 26,400 cuz of the distance to the CO or the quality of the cable pair.They are not too upset about this because although they get and send reports,email etc. all day almost everything is text based so the slow baud rate is not that much of a problem.I want to get them a Christmas present of a wireless network so they could use their laptop anywhere inside and outside.Sharing the connection is not the issue.Just portability.
My questions are about access points for dialup modems.I see online there are only couple of WAPS that have built in phone modems(one by Orinoco).Are they unusual?I gather that the modem dials the connection automatically when the NIC requests a connection.Is that the only kind that there are for dialup modems, i.e. ones with built in modems.Or are there some that you can plug an external modem into?If so,which are better?And of the ones that have a modem onboard which ones would you recommend?What are the considerations for a network that uses a phone line for its net connection?Thanks for any help. -- NYCwireless - http://www.nycwireless.net/ Un/Subscribe: http://lists.nycwireless.net/mailman/listinfo/nycwireless/ Archives: http://lists.nycwireless.net/pipermail/nycwireless/
