On Tue, 23 Jul 2002, Moebius wrote: > Lets face it, the WAP11 is basically a el cheapo barely functional AP.. It > you intend to do anything interesting, forget about it.. it's not worth the > hastle. Try one of the cool linux AP's like the Teletronics boxes, or invest > in Cisco or Orinoco..
We've recently bought a few of Planet WAP2000 access points and whilst cheap (�110 excluding our 17.5% value added sales tax) they work reasonably well, with good range and lots of nice features (40/128bit WEP, DHCP client/server modes, bridging/routing/brouting, NAT, etc). I'm currently using four of them to support a trainee teachers conference that we're running and I've got one covering 1/3 of a three storey building and three covering 4 lecture rooms and an exhibition hall (one lecture room is a monster 300 seat tiered theatre) in another large building. So far they seem to be able to cope with over 100 users milling about and using them in training sessions. The chaps in the networks team here all liked them so much that most of us bought one for home use as well. I don't know if the Planet stuff is available in the Bay Area but if it is, it gets my thumbs up. Usual disclaimers: I'm not associated with Planet or their suppliers other than as a satisfied customer, yadda, yadda, yadda. Tatty bye, Jim'll -- general wireless list, a bawug thing <http://www.bawug.org/> [un]subscribe: http://lists.bawug.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless
