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[Kevin - The Alchemist - Sonney <alchemist AT pobox.com>]

At 12:13pm Today, "Gina Norman" typed :
> Ok -- so the minimum to set up a wireless network is:
>
>   $299 base station
>    300? card for PC (or mac)
>    ____
>    600 investment

You can get OEM Wireless cards for $100 or less, and I saw at least one
base station at $199.

if you have a firewall/router box like I do, you could buy a PCMCIA
Cardslot for the router, and use that instead, bringing the whole cost
down to under $300 ($60 for the PCI->PCMCIA card, $100 +/- for the Cards)

> Knowing that I have the option to go wireless at any time, and knowing
> that they're gonna be pulling cable anyway (for the speaker wire) does it
> not make sense to get them to pull CAT5 or 6 or something?  (I'm assuming
> that the wire itself doesn't cost hundereds of dollars...)

Absolutely! But make sure they run it properly! The current law allows
them to run phone lines as a single cable, cut and re-joined at each
junction box. This is, of course, bad for ethernet. You may end up paying
extra for each run. But it would be worth it, IMHO.

I wish I had put the down on this house before they had run the wires for
just that purpose, but I can always run 'em myself later *grin*


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