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From: Bernie Doehner <bad@uhf.wireless.net>
To: Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com>
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Subject: Re: Wavelan ISA Card???
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> *extremely* slow and pretty useless for real work.  (I got 5K/sec out of
> them with the base station and a laptop running Win95.)

5k/sec?  With ISA Wavelan on the FreeBSD side and a Dec RoamAbout (Wavelan
clone) on my Linux laptop I get 1.6 Mb/s!
 
> I didn't buy them, but they were bought because they were
> cheap/cheap/cheap.  $950 for the base-station, and $250/PCMCIA card.

$250 I could live with. The $950 is a bit pricy.

Bernie