Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2000 15:23:32 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> Cc: Wesley Morgan <morganw@chemicals.tacorp.com>, mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ray committed Message-ID: <20001206152332.A21187@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <200011130313.UAA03395@harmony.village.org>; from imp@village.org on Sun, Nov 12, 2000 at 08:13:20PM -0700 References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0011122152410.34677-100000@volatile.chemicals.tacorp.com> <200011130313.UAA03395@harmony.village.org>
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On Sunday, 12 November 2000 at 20:13:20 -0700, Warner Losh wrote: > In message <Pine.BSF.4.21.0011122152410.34677-100000@volatile.chemicals.tacorp.com> Wesley Morgan writes: >> How would you say these cards compare to a wavelan or aironet? > > I think a couple more words are in order. > > They work OK. However, they are slower than the 2.0M aironet that I > used at BSDcon. They are a lot slower than the 11M wavelan cards. > They have a higher packet loss rate than the aironet or wavelan cards > I've used here and at BSDcon. Their only advantage is cost. They are > a lot cheaper than all other wireless cards because webgear went out > of business and have been dumped in the market. I paid like $120 for > my pair. > > So, comapred to the wavelan and aironet they suck. But compared to > nothing, they aren't too bad. I discussed this with Chris Yeoh at Linuxcare last week. He has no problems with packet loss; in fact, he considers them better in that respect than the Orinoco cards. Greg -- Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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