The sky tower is about the worst place in Auckland to do wireless from. The amount of noise coming off the sky tower is very high. You will only be able to cover a small area with each Cisco bridge due to interference around
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. Derek Gaeth Radionet Ltd -----Original Message----- From: owner-nznog(a)list.waikato.ac.nz [mailto:owner-nznog(a)list.waikato.ac.nz]On Behalf Of Matt Camp Sent: Tuesday, January 23, 2001 3:54 PM To: derek Cc: 'James Tyson'; 'nznog(a)list.waikato.ac.nz' Subject: RE: Wireless APE. On Tue, 23 Jan 2001, derek wrote: the
CBD. The Cisco gear works in the 2.4Ghz Unlicensed band. The max power output is 4 watts at the antenna. The best thing on your home end would be a Linux box with a PCI cradle and Cisoc PCI card.
Are there any better, higher-power equivalent units? I guess cost is also a consideration here. Anyone know much about WaveLan? I've only ever played with it in an intranet type setup. --- Matt Camp --------- To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog --------- To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog
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. --------- To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog
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
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
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