As long as you buy wireless devices that adhere to the IEEE 802.11
standard, you shouldn't have any serious problems. I have gotten a variety
of installations working with wireless, using a mix of vendors' equipment.
A Cisco person at Networkers told me that there might be a problem with
encryption not working correctly when getting Cisco's card to talk to
Apple's AirPort hub, but I have not found that to be the case.
As with any new technology, you might have to do a bit of tinkering to get
everything working. The only gotcha I ran into was that on the PC you have
to type in the name of the LAN you want to get on, (aka the Service Set ID
or SSID). It's case sensitive, which I didn't expect. On the Mac, (which
is, of course, much more user friendly &;-), a pop-up menu appeared and you
could just select the LAN name. No typing in SSIDs.
Priscilla
At 02:38 PM 8/18/00, 221BSB Kruczkowski, Raphael wrote:
>Hi all,
>I'm thinking about getting a IMAC for my mother, I want to get the Apple
>AirPort wireless link for it.
>My question is, will the AirPort wireless link work with some other
>company's wireless?
>
>I was reading that the Apple's AirPort uses the 802.11 DSSS standard. I
>also have a IBM laptop that I would like to use the wireless, but I bet that
>the Apple PCMCIA card will not work in a PC, So what I want to do is get
>Cisco's Aironet's PCMCIA card (won't it be cool having a IBM laptop with a
>big Cisco card sticking out of it sitting on the lawn browsing the net? with
>NO cables???) to access the apple hub.
>
>Anyone know?
>
>Also, are there any Apple geeks (hehe) here? I have a few questions...
>email me.
>
>Raphael Kruczkowski
>Cisco Certified Network Associate
>Cisco Certified Design Associate
>(Building Cisco Remote Access Networks)
>Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer
>221st BSB Systems Administrator
>DSN: 337-6457,Civ: 0172-5850123
>www.geocities.com/kruczkowski
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>topic appropriate for an investigative report in the field of psychology or
>marketing, not an article on information technology." - John Kirch
>
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