On Wed, Aug 25, 2004 at 08:25:11PM +1000, Shaun Oliver wrote: > 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
Note sure if it is nonstandard, it isn't 802.11b/g/a. This is out side of the 2.5 & 5 Ghz free range, they have paid for the spectrum as fas as I understand and to use the service you need there modem, not sure of the interconnect with the pc, but my guess would be ethernet A > > > -- > The problem with engineers is that they tend to cheat in order to get > results. > > The problem with mathematicians is that they tend to work on toy > problems in order to get results. > > The problem with program verifiers is that they tend to cheat at toy > problems in order to get results. > Shaun Oliver > http://blindman.homelinux.org/~blindman/ > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ > Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html >
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