Re: Slightly OT - Wireless

802.11g is great, faster/etc -- and some of the 802.11g systems provide
several choices for encryption.  I've had no problem with 802.11g and
penetrating walls/etc.

Linksys allows you to chose between "gateway" or "router" mode.

Only one problem with 802.11g -- there are VERY few drivers out there
that work, and none that I know of that have the encryption you want. 
At this point it's at least 3 months out for ok alpha drivers for any
802.11g products using the broadcom chipset -- as far as I can tell. 
Although I hear rumour there are alpha drivers for it, I've never been
able to get the rumourmongers to substantiate their rumours.

Hope that helps...

J/  -- oh and the 802.11a/g cards there are a few chipsets that ARE
supported in linux, go figure.

On Fri, 2003-08-01 at 13:10, John S. Andersen wrote:
> Ok, I'm sick of dragging my long cat 5 cable around the house
> when working on my Sony and I'm ready to jump into wireless.
> 
> Any recommendations?  (Hint must work with Linux - DUH!)
> 
> Somepeople tell me 802.11g is the way to go because its faster, 
> others say 802.11b is enough.  
> 
> I also want working security, encryption that works for 
> 
> I need some wall penetration capability because of the way my 
> location is arranged, and some say the 802.11g products are actually 
> worse at this than the 11b due to the frequency in use.  
> 
> I'd also like a BRIDGING access point as opposed to a ROUTER because 
> (as I understand it) a bridging ap puts the wireless segments in the 
> same subnet as the wired lan, (which means windows peer-to-peer stuff 
> works) where as a router sets a different subnet for the wireless 
> stations (and MS SMB packets don't traverse lan segments).  Or am I 
> all wet on this point???  
> 
> 
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