My experience with the WiFi232 (which I intend trying with my m100 and my Psion 3a now that I have a serial port installed on my PC (I need the serial port to put telnet software on the Psion)) has led me to look into connecting all my vintage machines via WiFi, partly for fun, and partly because my office space is limited as is the number of ethernet plugs on my router... I've an old K6-2 300mhz running Dos 6.22 and WFW3.11 that's currently on my network; I got a pci wifi adapter and will tackle getting it on the network soon, though I've read that very few wifi cards work with DOS, and those are PCMCIA. A few days ago I got an airport card for my g3 iMac graphite, and it talks to the network... if I stop security.
It seems for some reason the iMac's wpa personal / wpa2 personal isn't compatible with my netgear wireless N router WPA1/WPA2. Now I'm concerned that none of my vintage machines can access the network/internet securely. I don't care if they're secure, but I don't want them to provide a gateway to my main computer(s). I thought of using an old Belkin wireless G router with wep and I think wpa1, tying the old machines into it and tying that into my netgear router. But wouldn't that compromise security on the entire network? If I connected the Belkin to the Netgear via ethernet cable rather than wirelessly, would I be able to use that to limit what could access my modern computer network? I want to be able to access my main computer(s) from my vintage ones, and I want my vintage machines to access the internet (especially the M100 because of the Smaug mud I want to run for Model-Ts). I don't yet know if the WiFi232 uses WPA that is compatible with my netgear, which would solve the problem in a limited way if it did. As networks become more and more wireless, with more and more security, are we going to become less and less able to connect our old machines to the internet and each other?
