On Thu, 19 Feb 2004, Jim Thompson wrote: > > Joel Jaeggli writes: > > > One the personal mobility wireless side (UO)started with dec > > roamabout 900mhz gear in 94/95 moved on to at&t/lucent/dec wavelan > > 2.4ghz dss 802.11 gear in 96/97 and recieved our first 802.11b gear > > in 98. > > This would be difficult, since IEEE 802.11b wasn't ratified until > 1999, but I get your drift. :-)
this is true I should have said pre spec... there are substantial interoperbility isssues between some of that early hardare and modern hardware... I have cards laying that don't work at 2mb/s with short preamble for example... > > I've had an accesspoint in my house for more than five years > > now... The thing I wonder is what took everyone else so long? > > Gee, don't know. I've had 'WiFi' in my home since Feb 1998 for a > Aironet AP4500 with a (pre-standard) 4800 card inside. I think the oldest ones I have left in use are karlnet lucent ap1000's and aironet 4800s, but we keep digging roamabout gear out of the closet that isn't terribly useful anymore... > Jim > > -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
