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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