Bought the WiFi box I mentioned - 3Com HomeConnect
and a NetGear 802.11b PCMCIA card. About ?450
all in.
The HomeConnect sits between my cable modem and
my PCs. It runs DHCP and a lightweight firewall.
Two PCs are wire connected, one running Win98
and the other Mandrake. The Mandrake machine
used to be my router/NAT-thing. It didn't
even notice the change and is still happily
getting to the outside world. The Win PC is
fine too.
On the wireless side, I've only got Win2K on my
laptop at the moment, so I haven't yet had to
do the difficult bit - getting
the PCMCIA WiFi card to work nder Linux.
BUT, overall, it's very cool. I can sit anywhere
in the house, or outside within about ten yards, and
still be on the net.
Sad really :-)
t
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Mark Robinson
> Sent: 27 August 2001 17:15
> To: Tommy Kelly
> Subject: Re[2]: [scottish] WiFi
>
>
> Hello Tommy,
>
> Monday, 27 August 2001, you wrote:
>
> TK> Mark,
>
> TK> That's the higher-end box - no router functions, plugs into
> an existing
> TK> hub. Yes?
>
> Yeah.
>
> TK> The one I'm considering is lower in price, and has a built-in router
> TK> and firewall. I think it does DHCP too.
>
> Ah, sorry. I know what you mean now...
> Haven't used it, but everything else 3Com always behaves very well
> IMHO :-) I assume it'll use the same cards in the pc's though.
> I'll be interested to know how you get on with it...
>
> Mark
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