Someone much smarter than I, on Wed, Aug 25, 2004 at 10:05:49AM +1000, spake thus. > > Does anyone have any experience of "unwired".. .good, bad or ugly? My > daughter is getting 12Kb on her dial up because of crappy phone lines and > I'm wondering how good an alternative this is. > > She has a Macintosh which the web site says are supported. Sadly, linux > isn't mentioned - does anyone have any clues about linux connectivity? or > does it just connect to an ethernet port like anything else? > As I understand it dave, unwired uses a nonstandard proprietory implementation of wireless. I doubt you'll be able to connect it easily to a linux machine as it doesn't conform to the 802.11b standard I think it is. someone can correct me on that standard number at any rate. hth
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