>Sent: Friday, January 25, 2002 11:10 PM >Subject: re: [scottish] Wireless Networking
>I use a 3com HomeConnect WiFi router. >It sits after my cable modem and has space >for three wired connections plus any wireless >devices. It also has a modest firewall and does >NAT and DHCP. >Cost was about �250 and its about �125 for >a PCMCIA card (I've got a netgear one). >You can get PCI cards for any desktops too - they're >about the same price >It's worth looking out for a PCMCIA card with >an XJACK (i.e. the antenna retracts when not in use). >And make sure you get 802.11b - 11MBps. There is >a 1MBps wireless thing (from Intel I think) which >you'll find in PC World. I have absolutley no intention on going to a shop / warehouse that over charges :-) >You'd need to add a wee hub if you wanted four wired >machines though Already got the hub for these machines, its only a 4 port 10mbs but one of the machines (the laptop) would be coming out and useing wireless >And you would want to put the WiFi box on >your middle floor. Unfortunatly i'm not allowed to run any more Networking cables throught the house, the only place that i could be able to put it in would be the Bathroom (directly under the Computer room, but only one probelm the humidity! Theres a shower in the bathroom >I also recently tried a Netgear ME102. It's just WiFi, >with no NAT or DHCP. If you've got cable modem >you'd >probably want to get the MR314 which contains the ME102 plus >the other NAT etc stuff. What i'm intending on getting is a ADSL router, but i'm not to fussed with NAT etc cos the isp i'm considering to go with provideds 5 Fixed Ip's >I've had ranges of - I dunno - over 150 ft. Hmm, Could be a problem, i was told that it went 500ft indoors (but it dropped to 1mbs) >(Spec says about 300 ft I think). But that wasn't at home. >In my house, with plaster and lathe walls and an >old upright piano (a.k.a. diffraction gratings and faraday cage) >it can drop to under 30 ft. DOH!!!! Guess whats in my house, Lathe & plaster walls and we have an old upright piano >Hmm - nearly forgot. My laptop isn't running Linux! t -------------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.lug.org.uk http://www.linuxportal.co.uk http://www.linuxjob.co.uk http://www.linuxshop.co.uk -------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.lug.org.uk http://www.linuxportal.co.uk http://www.linuxjob.co.uk http://www.linuxshop.co.uk --------------------------------------------------------------------
