[MLB-WIRELESS] Suggestion

[David Arnold]

-->"Barry" == Barry Park <bpark at theage.fairfax.com.au> writes:

  Barry> Nice idea, but what's the incentive?

for me, the real incentive is not having the software set up for me,
but that the hardware i'd like to use is not off-the-swapmeet boxes.

my ideal setup is a small watertight box, roughly brick-sized or
smaller, which has a single 10baseT cable incoming, using POE (power
over ethernet) from my second-floor flat, up to the antenna mast on
top of the block (roughly 25 metres).

that box should contain a 486-586 class CPU, a 10M wired ether port,
16M RAM, a 32M flash card (for filesystem), and the capacity for at
least two and preferably optional capacity for 4 or 6 wavelan cards
(so i can run a local onmi, and several point-to-point backbone
links).

looking at what's out there, a PC/104-based system with several
stackable dual-PCMCIA slots seems ideal.  some of the better
motherboards have single-source power, RAM + CPU + ether on the board,
etc.

but in single quantities, these things cost an insane amount.

if we were able to do a deal, and get several hundred motherboards and
a few more PCMCIA boards direct from Taiwan, it'd be a lot more
feasible.





d

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