Can others offer their experience with wireless? 

What kind of range can you expect?
Does it have to be line of sight?
Would it be reliable enough to install a card in a neighbours house?
How linux compatable are the cards and bridges (or whatever you call the
"hub" that connects your wireless stuff to the rest of your lan?

charles

On Tue, 10 Apr 2001, Rodolfo J. Paiz wrote:

> At 4/10/01 07:38 AM -0500, you wrote:
> >anybody have any information regarding phone-line adapters?  there are PCI
> >cards available from Netgear, Linksys, and 3com.  i have only been able to
> >find Win32 drivers.  is it possible to use these cards in a linux system?
> 
> Although I can't help you, let me suggest that you take a close look at 
> Wi-Fi, otherwise known as Wireless Ethernet, otherwise known as 802.11b. 
> Better speed, more range, more flexibility, more interoperability, more 
> "future-ready," but more expensive. See if it's worth your money; I think 
> it is.
> 
> Particularly look at Linksys stuff; I've found it to be very cheap *and* 
> very good, for my house (two 8-port 10/100 switches and one 2-port print 
> server with a 4-port switch).



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