Last weekend I lashed out and bought myself a new toy: A Netcomm 802.11g/b access point (supoprts both standards and 128bit WEP too) :) I also bought a DLink PCI WiFi card for my wife's (Win2K) PC and wheeled her machine to the spare room. Despite traversing a bunch of walls, 1 bathroom, the laundry and nearly 11m - her PC is happily communicating at 11Mbps.
So with the success of her machine, I'm itching to un-tether my lappy and be able to lounge around in my favorite bean bag in front of the TV etc while I work. So given the limited driver support under Linux what have people *had success* with? I don't have mega-bucks to spend ($100-150 tops) and would be quite happy with an 802.11b (11Mbps) card. After all, if I REALLY need more, I can simply plug in the Xircom 100Mbps card and hammer away in my study. Any war stories, but particularly success stories welcome. For the record, yes I've enabled WEP using a 128bit key, AND put the access point in a DMZ on it's own AND used a rather cryptic SSID; so no point war-driving my house OK? :P If I start getting people (not necessarily from here) poking around my WiFi network, I'll just add IPsec to the equation and that should be the end of it - right? Any other security measures I should consider? James -- Fortune cookies says: Unix: Some say the learning curve is steep, but you only have to climb it once. -- Karl Lehenbauer -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
