Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2000 08:45:58 -0700 From: Bob Ney <bney@quiknet.com> To: freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD base station? Message-ID: <3.0.6.32.20001024084558.00f3c310@pop.quiknet.com> In-Reply-To: <20001024093142.A63380@gvr.gvr.org> References: <200010240432.e9O4Wui08181@curve.dellroad.org> <200010240432.e9O4Wui08181@curve.dellroad.org>
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Unfortunately, they say you can only have 32 nodes talking to it which makes it unusable for any large scale rollout of wireless. It and its cards appear to be intended for use just within an office environment. At 09:31 AM 10/24/00 +0200, Guido van Rooij wrote: >On Mon, Oct 23, 2000 at 09:32:56PM -0700, Archie Cobbs wrote: >> I'm just learning about wireless stuff so pardon my ignorance.. >> >> So these base stations (at least the WaveLAN ones) are just boxes >> with an Ethernet jack and a PCMCIA card jack, into which you plug >> a normal WaveLan card. And they cost $800 or whatever. > >Actually, Linksys just released one (the WAP11) which has an antenna >builtin (so has a better coverage) for about $239. I have asked but not >(yet) received an answer to my question regarding interoperability >with the Wavelan (Orinoco) stuff. If it works okay the linksys station >is a good deal. > >Furthermore you can buy an Apple airport for about $300. This is also >a base station but based on a single pcmcia card (so the coverage is >not as good) but has a builtin modem and it has NAT functionality (though >I've heart it NAT not quite stable yet). > >-Guido > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message > Bob Ney Quiknet Inc. Director Operations (916) 782-9700 bney@quiknet.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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