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[David Minton <david AT designhammer.com>]

I believe many (all?) of the wireless access points do NAT. At least my
Airport does. It can handle NAT, DHCP and wireless/ethernet bridge (or any
combination). It even has a 56K modem in case your DSL/Cable services goes
out-though want is the chance that would ever happen ;-)

David

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David Minton - Managing Partner
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On 4/18/01 11:49 AM, "Thomas" <thomas AT tbeckett.com> wrote:

>        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.
>> 
>> --
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