Internetworkers: http://www.ibiblio.org/internetworkers/

[Thomas <thomas AT tbeckett.com>]

        Here's a related question:  if you wanted use a wireless network 
and share your DSL/cable net connection, would you still have to buy an NAT 
switch to do so?

TaB

At 11:04 AM 4/18/01 -0400, you wrote:
> on Wed, Apr 18, 2001 at 10:47:00AM -0400, Edward Wesolowski wrote:
> > Has anyone had experience with 802.11b wireless?
>
> Go back and read all the other posts in the thread :)
>
> Yes, I'm using Airport (which is an 802.11b product based on Lucent's
> Wavelan/Orinoco Silver product, with 64bit WEP encryption) at both
> home and work. I love it. The Airport PC cards are $99, the Airport
> base station is $299, and you can use Lucent cards in any PC for
> ~$300 or less:
>
>  http://www.cdw.com/shop/search/results.asp?grp=WAD
>
> For $69, you can get PCI Lucent cards (basically, just a PCMCIA card
> interface glued to a PCI card, AFAICT, so you should even be able to
> yank it out and use it in a laptop - YMMV).
>
> I'm not sure I'd give up on catV for the office just yet, though we
> are using wireless for presentations and the like, but it's getting
> too cheap not to try wireless if you're interested.
>
> --
> "Euphoria is not a business strategy" -- Louis Rossetto
>
> ---
> Come and play at the InterNetWorkers Web 
> site!  http://www.ibiblio.org/internetworkers/
> You are currently subscribed to internetworkers as: thomas AT tbeckett.com
> To unsubscribe send a blank email to 
> $subst('Email.Unsub')