Date: Mon, 21 Sep 1998 09:25:56 -0600 From: Kenneth Ingham <ingham@i-pi.com> To: Guido van Rooij <guido@gvr.org>, freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: wireless lan solutions Message-ID: <19980921092556.L8777@i-pi.com> In-Reply-To: <19980919233426.A10023@gvr.org>; from Guido van Rooij on Sat, Sep 19, 1998 at 11:34:26PM %2B0200 References: <19980919233426.A10023@gvr.org>
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On Sat, Sep 19, 1998 at 11:34:26PM +0200, Guido van Rooij wrote: > I am thinking of buying a wireless lan setup for my home. It will serve > 2-3 laptops at most. I am wondering if anyone can give me some suggestions > on prices/technology. I have a wireless lan running in my house, using about 1.5 year old technology. I have two OTC telecom (http://www.ezylink.com/) AirEZY2400s plugged into two hubs via crossover cables. The advantage that thse wireless LAN boxes have is that you plug 10baseT into them. No special drivers needed. Disadvantage is that they cost more than the radio-only units. I could improve performance by setting up a bridge (picobsd? :-), but haven't found the need to. The 2400s are rated at 2Mpbs raw, 1Mbps is what you should see (according to the marketing specs). I've not done thorough tests, so I cannot really say the specific speeds you'll really see. When using one of these to my FreeBSD laptop, I could tell a performance difference in X from another machine (copmpared to a 10Mbps ethernet), but it was livable. I have not tried NFS across it. RadioLan was selling a 10Mbps product a while ago, but they were not helpful with supplying info so I could write a FreeBSD driver. They claim to have a product which does not need special drivers, but I have not checked it out. I was a little grumpy at their attitude (sales person says, ``sure, we'll provide the info for you to write a driver'', once I bought a pair the story changed. I sent them back). Kenneth To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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