The first rev of the basestation has gone down in price; I could be wrong
but I remember seeing it at dealmac.com for $189. Not bad.
On Fri, 22 Feb 2002, Howdy-Tzi wrote:
> At 02:17 +0000 02/22/2002, lpovoas wrote:
>
> > I am working with a neighboor (he is a designer, i am the lingo guy)
> >and his house is about 60meters from mine. We intend to make a
> >WAN or a wireless LAN connection beetween our computers, so we would
> >not need to rent an office yet.
> > Which wireless solutions would be suitable for us at a reasonable
> >price? we intend to spend arround uS$150 for both points.
>
> The wireless cards are all more or less interchangeable and go for
> US$50 to US$100 apiece. It's the base station that's going to gouge
> you. AirPort is US$300. I wouldn't expect any other brands to be less
> than US$200.
>
> There's probably no way you could get it going -- with brand new
> equipment -- for under US$500.
>
> Remember too you get what you pay for. If you buy really cheap
> equipment, you can probably expect exasperatingly common comm
> failures.
>
>
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