You do not need a MAC to configure a Airport. Not anymore
anyway.. :)

    http://freebase.sourceforge.net/

----- Original Message -----
From: "Craig White" <craigwhite@azapple.com>
To: <plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us>
Sent: Wednesday, October 25, 2000 9:25 PM
Subject: RE: I'm Wireless!!!


> Actually, I was going to do an Apple Airport at an all PC house but you
need
> a Macintosh with a wireless card to configure it and they haven't any
Macs
> at their house at all.
>
> The Airport and the cheapest iMac with an airport card is $300 + 795 +
$100
> = good deal but more money than the PC only setup.
>
> Craig
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: plug-discuss-admin@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
> > [mailto:plug-discuss-admin@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us]On Behalf Of
Michael
> > F. March
> > Sent: Wednesday, October 25, 2000 8:56 PM
> > To: plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
> > Subject: Re: I'm Wireless!!!
> >
> >
> > I would get rid of the access point and get an Apple Airport.
> > That does the same thing and it retails for $300. The Airport
> > comes with the Silver card instead of the Gold. I have tried
> > all of Orinoco cards and I like the Silver the best anyway.
> > You get 40 bit encryption but the performance is much better.
> > Since I run SSH/SSL/PGP for all my sensitive transactions,
> > the 128bit wire encryption on the wireless cards goes to
> > waste anyway.
> >
> > You can however, put the Gold in the Airport if you want.
> >
> > BTW.. here is good price on the Gold card:
> >
> >     http://www.cc-inc.com/pcmall/shop/detail.asp?dpno=950604
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Kevin Brown" <kevin_brown@uswest.net>
> > To: <plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us>
> > Sent: Wednesday, October 25, 2000 8:28 PM
> > Subject: Re: I'm Wireless!!!
> >
> >
> > > Around $800 for the access point and I believe around $200 for each
of
> > the
> > > wireless cards.  All my stuff is Orinoco (spin off of Lucent) and is
the
> > Gold
> > > version (128bit encryption).  It's real nice to have, but bloody
> > expensive.  All
> > > my stuff came from egghead.com.  My full network setup is as
follows:
> > >
> > > Internet
> > >     |
> > > Cisco 675
> > >     |
> > > 10/100Mb Hub - Non essential systems
> > >     |          (2 Multias, 1 Win98)
> > > 10/100Mb Switch - 100Mb Accesspoint Backplane
> > >     |             (3 laptops, 1 iPaq)
> > >     |
> > > (2 WinNT (dual Xeon), 1 Quad PPro)
> > >
> > > Only my laptop and the multias run Non-windows OSes (dual boot for
> > laptop).  I
> > > primarily run Linux on my system at work, too bad I have to use
Outlook
> > for
> > > email, damn Exchange server.
> > >
> > > > I have been itching to do the same thing... What are the costs
> > involved in
> > > > getting that set up?
> > > >
> > > > I have a Cisco 675 DSL connection and I use dhcp without a
problem.
> > Well,
> > > > it didn't like dhcpcd but dhclient works great.
> > >
> > > > > As I write this email I am using an Orinoco Wireless 11Mb
network
> > card.
> > > > > We have three of these in the house for our portables (laptops
and
> > an
> > > > > iPaq pda) and an access point (not peer-peer).  Next step is to
get
> > it
> > > > > to work under Linux.  I have full 128-bit encryption enabled on
the
> > link
> > > > > and use dhcp from a Cisco 675 (dsl box).  Unfortunately I have
never
> > > > > been able to get linux to get an IP address from the thing, so I
> > don't
> > > > > know if I can get the wireless card to.  The windows boxen have
no
> > > > > trouble.  I wonder what they pass as their parameter to work
with
> > it.
> > > > > Oh well, problem for a later date.
> > >
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