On Sat, Nov 05, 2005 at 01:16:51AM -0700, Chris Carey wrote: > For your situation (no access point) - why not just buy an access > point and stick it next to your computer? It will be as cheap as the > PCI card, easier to configure, and more versatile. >
More versatile? In what way? In the fact you can use it in different environments without moving a desktop, yes. But a wireless router (ignoring the linksys one you can hack) doesn't have near the capabilities of a PCI wireless card in a Linux box. Here at my apartment Andrew has set up a desktop as a router/firewall with a prism54g wireless card. It acts as the coolest access point ever, no WPA, no WEP, but yet no one can use it unless they connect to our openvpn setup. That and the dansguardian filtering is pretty nice. I think you get a lot more versatility with a desktop and PCI card in Linux. You can do what ever you want, and it probably won't need to reboot as much as that crappy netgear wireless router I have. Of course, there is a bit of a learning curve with the PCI card, but I think it's worthwhile. -- Scott Paul Robertson http://spr.mahonri5.net GnuPG FingerPrint: 09ab 64b5 edc0 903e 93ce edb9 3bcc f8fb dc5d 7601
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