Re: [newbie] Linux and Wireless Lan/Internet

2003-09-07 Thread Derek Jennings
On Saturday 06 Sep 2003 7:05 pm, Tom Brinkman wrote: On Saturday September 6 2003 11:02 am, Derek Jennings wrote: On Saturday 06 Sep 2003 3:03 pm, Jason Greenwood wrote: Ok all, I have decided to ditch the wires and go wireless for my ADSL Modem/router/Accesspoint and NIC at home. What is

Re: [newbie] Linux and Wireless Lan/Internet

2003-09-07 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Sunday September 7 2003 08:02 am, Derek Jennings wrote: Actually you will be lucky to get more than 5 Mbps of 'goodput' out of an 11Mbps wireless card. I spent some time recently putting together a wireless router for a small ISP here in the UK, and that was the best throughput I measured,

Re: [newbie] Linux and Wireless Lan/Internet

2003-09-06 Thread Derek Jennings
On Saturday 06 Sep 2003 3:03 pm, Jason Greenwood wrote: Ok all, I have decided to ditch the wires and go wireless for my ADSL Modem/router/Accesspoint and NIC at home. What is the guts of it?? Nowadays adsl modems and nic's almost always work with Linux (my Nokia Modem/Router and Generic NIC

Re: [newbie] Linux and Wireless Lan/Internet

2003-09-06 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Saturday September 6 2003 11:02 am, Derek Jennings wrote: On Saturday 06 Sep 2003 3:03 pm, Jason Greenwood wrote: Ok all, I have decided to ditch the wires and go wireless for my ADSL Modem/router/Accesspoint and NIC at home. What is the guts of it?? Nowadays adsl modems and nic's almost