Wireless router question.

[kyle at breezy.com (Kyle Plummer)]

Funny, Linux Journal has an article, in the February 2002 issue, on how to
use an old laptop as a base station.  Using Orinoco WiFi cards.  Looks
interesting.

Kyle


----- Original Message -----
From: "Bob Keyes" <bob at sinister.com>
To: "Kent Borg" <kentborg at borg.org>
Cc: "Jerry Feldman" <gaf at blu.org>; <discuss at blu.org>
Sent: Wednesday, February 06, 2002 2:34 PM
Subject: Re: Wireless router question.


> I've been very active in the wireless arena for a while now, and here's
> what I've concluded based upon people's comments to mailing lists:
>
> FORGET support from SMC, Linksys, and the lesser known vendors. They are
> basically front operations for Taiwan based manufacturers who, even if
> they could understand your language, don't have the time to deal with you.
>
> The best 802.11 gear is made by Cisco, closely followed by Lucent. Support
> here is also better. While bleeding-edge gear from these vendors is
> expensive, trailing edge stuff can be quite reasonable. For instance, the
> older generation Cisco AIR-PCM-342 cards can be had for as low as $40 and
> are vastly superior to the generic, prism2 chipset cards that are sold by
> the 'generic' vendors. There's a lot of the Lucent Orinoco cards available
> cheap as well, though some with no WEP or only 40 bit WEP. These are nice
> because you can get a cable to easily attach an external antenna, for less
> than $20.
>
> For access points, the Lucent RG-1000 has been discontinued, but is still
> supported and a package of access point and one client card is available
> from http://www.invictusnetworks.com/itm00005.htm -- I am going to be
> ordering one of these and will let you know how well it works. They have a
> good reputation, and ....WILL RUN LINUX!
>
> I've dropped this URL before, but I'll do it again here because I think
> it's appropriate: http://www.bawia.org -- Boston Area Wireless Internet
> Alliance -- a mailing list and web resource that might help answer some of
> your 802.11b questions.
>
>
>
> On Wed, 6 Feb 2002, Kent Borg wrote:
>
> > On Wed, Feb 06, 2002 at 01:32:11PM -0500, Jerry Feldman wrote:
> > > Does anyone actually have any real opinions on one over the other.
Both support 128 bit
> > > encryption IEEE 802.11b compatible.
> >
> > Remember, 802.11b WEP security has been broken.  It doesn't matter
> > what length key you use, the protocol chooses the keys poorly and
> > there is a free cracking tool out there that cracks WEP (Airsnort?).
> >
> > Go ahead and use WEP if you like, but put something secure on top of
> > it, like SSL or SSH.  There are going to be drive-by-spammers, don't
> > let them blacken your reputation.
> >
> >
> > -kb, the Kent who hasn't figured out the details of setting up a
> > secure 802.11b system.
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