On Thursday, May 16, 2002, at 03:28 PM, Glenn Fleishman wrote:
> On 5/16/02 12:00 PM, Bill Vinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Plus, if you look around, you can find some places occasionally selling >> the Airport for $50 which is cheaper than I have ever seen a Orinoco >> Gold sell for. > > The deal is that some vendors seem to have a supply of AirPort cards > with > the 1.0 firmware in them that they're selling for $50. In fact, these > cards > can be fully flashed to the 2.0 (128-bit WEP, etc.) software just by > downloading Apple's AirPort updater and installing it with the card in > the > machine. That's what I was getting at in the previous paragraph about being able to software upgrade the cards. This totally ignores the issue the 128-bit encryption is not really any more secure, but still a nice setup as Apple's software is quite nice. I just wish they included iwconfig type tools for command-line configuration in Mac OS X... Bill ----------------------------------- Bill Vinson http://www.trilug.org/~billv -- general wireless list, a bawug thing <http://www.bawug.org/> [un]subscribe: http://lists.bawug.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless
