Evening all On Wed, 24 Jan 2001, Rob Isaac wrote:
Whether the cards themselves conform to 802.11 doesn't really matter -- there's a bunch of software voodoo inside the COR and ROR boxes to prevent them from talking directly to another 802.11 device, unless it also is imprisoned inside a COR or ROR box. The restriction is entirely arbitrary, and Lucent even sell a 'license upgrade' to turn one into the other.
Ack, that's lame. Can you not pull out the Wavelan cards, and ditch the stupid Lucent prisons? Stick with it folks - it's worthwhile. I've spent the last week in analog modem hell, after giving up the 802.11b at my old house. After a srquence of stupid mistakes, I finally got the Orinoco cards working at the new house, and this is what I'm getting disk to disk (and across two routers on citylink as well :-): ncftp / > get pub/linux/kernels/linux-2.4.0.tar.bz2 linux-2.4.0.tar.bz2: 18.87 MB 613.19kB/s tcpblast reckons I'm getting 12Mb/s, but I reckon it's a crock. Yay. Now she won't lynch me :-).
Annoying that a company that got the technology so right managed to screw it up so badly with a marketroid 'artificial crippling' hack to rival the 486SX in it's stunning cluelessness.
Yeah, it's pretty weird, when you can emulate everything the base stations can do (except the bridging) with an SBC and your choice of free *nix. Cheers Si --------- To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog