On Tue, 23 Jan 2001, Joe Abley wrote:
On Tue, Jan 23, 2001 at 04:27:04PM +1300, derek wrote:
It is not the equipment that determines the output, but the 2.4Ghz spectrum regulations being 4 watts. It will cost you more for a WaveLan setup as Lucent's outdoor solution (COR and ROR)does not conform to 802.11. They have deployed there own proprietary polling system and they will not work with any other vendor. So if you want to use a Linux box at home to save cost you should go with Cisco, also the drivers for the Cisco card come prepackaged in the latest Linux distributions.
Lucent's bronze, silver and gold 11M turbo cards all talk 802.11b; last time I looked there was nothing to stop anybody using them for outdoor applications.
It's not the cards that are the problem. As Derek said, it's Lucent's recommended outdoor solution that's the problem. The COR and ROR devices he talks about are the little black boxes you plug the cards themselves into for building-to-building links. 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. 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. <R>< --------- To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog