Wireless PCMCIA cards

[bob at sinister.com (Bob Keyes)]

In theory, any card and access point certified as 'wifi' (802.11b)
compatible should work with each other.

I highly recommend the Cisco cards, if you can afford them. You can
probably get the older (342) cards for about $60, used. Cisco access
points are very expensive. You may want to settle for a cheaper AP,
linksys is a popular choice, though the closeout price of the Lucent/Avaya
RG-1000 makes it attractive, and theoretically a bit better performance
than the Linksys.

I don't have experience with Proxim products, but I do recall hearing that
their FH Access Points weren't very good.

On Thu, 21 Feb 2002, Robert P. Sarao wrote:

> The question I have is, can you mix cards with switches... If I have a
> cisco wireless are there setting to make the other cards talk to it..?
>
>                                                                                                              Robert
>
>
> At 12:21 AM 2/21/2002 -0500, Drew Taylor wrote:
> >Hello all,
> >
> >Based on one of the recent threads, I'm looking for wireless LAN PCMCIA
> >cards. Specifically I looked at the Cisco cards (too expensive for my
> >blood at $150) and Lucent cards (Silver Orinoco for $60). Finally, I've
> >found a proxim card at $40, but know nothing about it. Does anyone have
> >experiences w/ the Proxim line? The specific card is the RangeLAN DS, but
> >Proxim's website has no references to this product.
> >
> >The card I get should work under Windoze 98/2000 and Linux. OS X support
> >would be a nice plus. Any opinions & comments are welcome. Thanks.
> >
> >Drew
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> >
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