Not sure about your ghost bridging issue, but USB 1.1 is definitely slow, inherently. I don't believe the 12Mbs takes into account packetization and framing overhead (30-40%?). Also, the latency is unacceptable for many applications even more so than the bandwidth. I found online gaming nearly impossible over USB.
If you can return it and get a PCI/pc card combo I think you would be better off. d -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Mike Avery Sent: 15 January 2003 21:27 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [BAWUG] Home wireless mystery This is a home/home office question, but it has me talking to myself, so I hope someone can give me a hand. My office is attached to our garage, about 25 feet from our house. All the walls in question are standard wood frame construction. I put a D-Link DWL-1000AP in my office so I could have fun with my laptop anywhere in the office or the house. It's in infrastructure mode. Long packet headers. 40 (or 64) bit encryption, and access restricted by MAC addresses. My son, of course, wanted to get on the 'net. So, I got him a Linksys WUSB11, a USB 802.11b NIC. And now for the mystery. If my laptop is on-line with any wireless card (I have a D-Link 650, a Cabletron Roamabout, a Cisco 340, and an ORiNOCO Gold card), or operating system (the laptop dual boots Windows 98SE Red Hat Linux 7.something), his PC can connect to the net. As soon as I turn off my laptop, his connection goes away. His computer is about 50 feet from the AP. (25 feet from office to house, another 25 feet from house wall to his computer.) It doesn't matter if my laptop is in the house or the office.... if it's on, he's up. If my laptop is down, so's my son. The WUSB11 is the first version that only has an internal antenna. My understanding of Infrastructure mode would make me think my laptop shouldn't be relaying..... As a side note, the WUSB11 connection is as slow as hell. I don't know if this is inevitable with a USB connection, or if the speed is a symptom of something else. Anyway... to the question... how can we get him up without my computer? I've been thinking about putting an Ethernet card in his system and hooking a WET11 or DWL-810+ to his Ethernet card.... but I'd prefer a no dollar answer. Any advice will be greatly appreciated, Mike -- Mike Avery [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 16241692 AOL IM:MAvery81230 Phone: 970-642-0282 * Spam is for lusers who can't get business any other way * Once seen on road signs all over the United States: Pa acted So tickled Ma thot He was pickled He'd just tried Burma-Shave -- general wireless list, a bawug thing <http://www.bawug.org/> [un]subscribe: http://lists.bawug.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless -- general wireless list, a bawug thing <http://www.bawug.org/> [un]subscribe: http://lists.bawug.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless
