Hi there
I have worked with these beasts before Cisco decided to buy up the whole
kaboodle (Aironet)
They work well as long as you dont have interference concerning line of
sight .
Sometimes they can really get full of sh.. nonsense in a bridge type
environment .
They have to be line of sight
I have deployed the Aironet Wireless LAN between two of our buildings. The
buildings are 300 yards apart. There is a clear line of site. We have
approx 20 users coming across the line for email, file and print services,
internet access and a few client server apps. The 11mbps is half duplex.
I have an Aironet 4800b access point and a couple of client cards.
There have been problems with the new code they are using. They
apparently changed to a new radio and a new OS (VxWorks) when they started
the 4800 series units. One of the biggest problems to my mind is the lack
of any scalable
We're using 802.11b in our office and we love it. We use the Apple AirPort
base station, which is made by Lucent but sells for only $299. It supports
up to 10 users but you need a Macintosh to configure it (or a freeware Java
app). As far as NICs, we're using Lucent PCMCIA cards. We're
The aironet device is slick. I like what I've used so far, we are deploying
it into all thousand of our remote sites. It is pretty expensive though,
and its supposed to move to 100 MB within 12 months, so the technology is
still fairly new, and prices reflect. The device is menu driven and
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From: Chris H [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Sent: Tuesday, June 27, 2000 10:52 AM
Subject: Re: Review of Cisco Aironet
The aironet device is slick. I like what I've used so far, we are
deploying
it into all thousand of our remote sites. It is pretty
Title: RE: Review of Cisco Aironet
When I tried it for a couple of weeks we were generally not more than 50 feet from the controller but we lost contact several times. I really like the freedom it provides but I would hate to try to explain the outages to heavy users.
Joe
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