From owner-freebsd-mobile Mon Feb 25 10:12:52 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from quack.kfu.com (adsl-67-113-12-90.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [67.113.12.90]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B6E8037B421 for ; Mon, 25 Feb 2002 10:12:45 -0800 (PST) Received: from medusa.kfu.com (medusa.kfu.com [3ffe:1200:301b:0:2c0:95ff:fee1:af10]) by quack.kfu.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g1PICdD29716 (using TLSv1/SSLv3 with cipher EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA (168 bits) verified OK); Mon, 25 Feb 2002 10:12:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nsayer@quack.kfu.com) Received: from kfu.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) (authenticated) by medusa.kfu.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g1PICd462719; Mon, 25 Feb 2002 10:12:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nsayer@kfu.com) Received: from 67.89.178.34 (SquirrelMail authenticated user nsayer) by medusa.kfu.com with HTTP; Mon, 25 Feb 2002 10:12:39 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <1208.67.89.178.34.1014660759.squirrel@medusa.kfu.com> Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2002 10:12:39 -0800 (PST) Subject: Re: recommendation not to purchase DWL-1000AP From: "Nick Sayer" To: In-Reply-To: <15479.20563.424313.788279@whale.home-net> References: <15479.20563.424313.788279@whale.home-net> X-Priority: 3 Importance: Normal X-MSMail-Priority: Normal Cc: X-Mailer: SquirrelMail (version 1.2.5) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Filter-Version: 1.7 (medusa.kfu.com) Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org John Reynolds said: > > Hello mobile, > > Just to add my $0.02 to the fray, I'll volunteer some information that > people (including myself) ask for from time to time on this list--what > wireless "stuff" to buy. > For what it's worth, I found the Linksys AP I bought not too long ago (on eBay no less) has been pretty nice. It looks like a space alien, but it was relatively easy to work with. I could have used SNMP to talk to it, but I cheated and used the windows-only USB method (it just was handier). Also, this is the one that folks say you can hot-wire to run at 100 mW (although there have been reports that doing so just makes it transmit lots of noise). To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message