Re: Does 802.11b use a lot of resources?

2005-03-03 Thread Loren M. Lang
On Wed, Mar 02, 2005 at 08:32:55AM -0800, Christopher Kelley wrote: Loren M. Lang wrote: On Wed, Mar 02, 2005 at 01:26:45AM -0500, Bob Johnson wrote: On Friday 25 February 2005 12:06 am, Christopher Kelley wrote: Have I tried too hard to squeeze usability out of an old computer?

Re: Does 802.11b use a lot of resources?

2005-03-02 Thread Loren M. Lang
On Wed, Mar 02, 2005 at 01:26:45AM -0500, Bob Johnson wrote: On Friday 25 February 2005 12:06 am, Christopher Kelley wrote: Have I tried too hard to squeeze usability out of an old computer? I have a Pentium-166 that has been a faithful router firewall (FreeBSD 5.3 and pf) for a couple

Re: Does 802.11b use a lot of resources?

2005-03-02 Thread Christopher Kelley
Loren M. Lang wrote: On Wed, Mar 02, 2005 at 01:26:45AM -0500, Bob Johnson wrote: On Friday 25 February 2005 12:06 am, Christopher Kelley wrote: Have I tried too hard to squeeze usability out of an old computer? I have a Pentium-166 that has been a faithful router firewall (FreeBSD 5.3

Re: Does 802.11b use a lot of resources?

2005-03-01 Thread Christopher Kelley
Vince wrote: I'm not sure if this is still the case but.. Have a read of this thread, http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2004-May/027476.html Basicly set your wireless to ad-hoc mode and see if that resolves the issue. It did for me (had an old p133 laptop acting as my Access

Re: Does 802.11b use a lot of resources?

2005-03-01 Thread Loren M. Lang
On Thu, Feb 24, 2005 at 09:06:51PM -0800, Christopher Kelley wrote: Have I tried too hard to squeeze usability out of an old computer? I have a Pentium-166 that has been a faithful router firewall (FreeBSD 5.3 and pf) for a couple years now. It has no trouble with the 3 to 4 Mbps I get

Re: Does 802.11b use a lot of resources?

2005-03-01 Thread Bob Johnson
On Friday 25 February 2005 12:06 am, Christopher Kelley wrote: Have I tried too hard to squeeze usability out of an old computer? I have a Pentium-166 that has been a faithful router firewall (FreeBSD 5.3 and pf) for a couple years now. It has no trouble with the 3 to 4 Mbps I get from my

Re: Does 802.11b use a lot of resources?

2005-03-01 Thread Christopher Kelley
Bob Johnson wrote: On Friday 25 February 2005 12:06 am, Christopher Kelley wrote: Have I tried too hard to squeeze usability out of an old computer? I have a Pentium-166 that has been a faithful router firewall (FreeBSD 5.3 and pf) for a couple years now. It has no trouble with the 3 to 4

RE: Does 802.11b use a lot of resources?

2005-02-28 Thread Vince
it died, and that was fine.) Vince -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Christopher Kelley Sent: 25 February 2005 05:07 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Does 802.11b use a lot of resources? Have I tried too hard to squeeze

Does 802.11b use a lot of resources?

2005-02-24 Thread Christopher Kelley
Have I tried too hard to squeeze usability out of an old computer? I have a Pentium-166 that has been a faithful router firewall (FreeBSD 5.3 and pf) for a couple years now. It has no trouble with the 3 to 4 Mbps I get from my broadband connection, at least not with ethernet. I wanted