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Date:      Tue, 10 Jun 1997 22:07:24 -0600 (MDT)
From:      Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com>
To:        Bernie Doehner <bad@uhf.wireless.net>
Cc:        Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com>, "Tom T. Thai" <tomthai@future.net>, "Yury V. Savin" <msav@kari.ru>, freebsd-isp@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Wavelan ISA Card???
Message-ID:  <199706110407.WAA02557@rocky.mt.sri.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95.970610234833.456D-100000@uhf.wdc.net>
References:  <199706102154.PAA00875@rocky.mt.sri.com> <Pine.BSF.3.95.970610234833.456D-100000@uhf.wdc.net>

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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



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