I believe another option that the BR350 Cisco's support is the tunable link distance parameter. For long distance links, you can enter the number of kilometers that the link spans. This alters the radio timing such that longer link latencies do not cause protocol issues. I have not seen this in any of the cheaper 802.11b radios on the market.. Additionally, they have a much better temperature and humidify specification than the WGB352's so should survive in harsher environments than the workgroup (8MAC) bridges.
Regarding cost, the $900/radio price is not much different than comparable 'industrial' radios from other vendors such as Alvarion.. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Joel Jaeggli Sent: Monday, October 20, 2003 6:37 AM To: Simon Woodside Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [BAWUG] cisco ripping me off? the aironet or ios based firmware for the cisco ap's is vastly superior to any other I've ever used. joelja On Mon, 20 Oct 2003, Simon Woodside wrote: > Is there any good reason why the Cisco Aironet bridges cost so much > more than the APs? Looking at something like the D-Link AP900+ which > can operate in AP or bridge mode, and reading some other comments, it > seems like they're just taking advantage of ignorant corporate > customers. > > I need to set up a long-distance link (like 25 km) and I want to put in > more reliable radios for that section of the network, but I don't want > to pay the cisco "bridge tax". > > simon > > -- > www.simonwoodside.com :: www.openict.net :: www.semacode.org > 99% Devil, 1% Angel > > -- > general wireless list, a bawug thing <http://www.bawug.org/> > [un]subscribe: http://lists.bawug.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Joel Jaeggli Unix Consulting [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG Key Fingerprint: 5C6E 0104 BAF0 40B0 5BD3 C38B F000 35AB B67F 56B2 -- 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
