[MLB-WIRELESS] wireless cards and ap's

[Ryan Abbenhuys]

95% of wireless cards on the market are PCMCIA, the other 5% that are PCI
are pretty much just a PCMCIA card bundled with a PCI-PCMCIA adapter, or a
PCMCIA card actually hard mounted on a PCI-PCMCIA adapter.

Best cards on the market would be Orinoco's (also known as Wavelan and
Agere) cards, there are several other brands which are simply the same cards
but rebranded. Enterasys Roamabouts fall into this catagory and are very
common cards in melbwireless.

You would have no problems connecting 6km's with an 18dB antenna with pretty
much any card at all.

----- Original Message -----
From: "John Cook" <eathos at cqwireless.org>
To: <syd-wireless at lists.sydneywireless.com>; <tsv-wireless at jcu.edu.au>;
<mesh at itee.uq.edu.au>; <melbwireless at wireless.org.au>
Sent: Tuesday, July 30, 2002 3:26 PM
Subject: [MLB-WIRELESS] wireless cards and ap's


> What cards do people find the best for robustness, features and price.
>
> Just form the cards you have all used which ones were the nicest to work
> with, didn't give you hassles that sort of thing, power out put for me
> isn't to great a concern as I'm going to be able 6 km's form the ap, and
> I have 18db antenna,.
>
> Now I want to use a pci card or an Ethernet bridge to connect but if the
> pcmcia cards have better features than the pci stuff so be it.
>
> I was thinking the dlink DWL-520 looks a good card to start with, and
> there not the costly as well.
>
> Anyways just wanted to ask what you guys like using the most.
>
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