I'm Wireless!!!

[Michael F. March]

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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