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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!

That's great.  Is this a point-point link, or in a wireless LAN?

> > 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.

How does the AT&T Wavelan stuff work?  The Xircom stuff has a 'base
station' that you stick on your ethernet segment that broadcasts data
to/from the machines with Xircom cards in them.  Is the WaveLAN stuff at
all like that?


Nate