Lot's of folks are selling the 2532. Looks like it currently goes for between $54-$63:
http://reviews.cnet.com/SMC_SMC2532W_B_2_4GHz_802_11b_High_Power_Wireless_PC_ Card/4505-3251_7-21183545.html?tag=topprods Cheer, Allen On Mon, 1 Dec 2003 02:40:53 -0500, Jay R. Ashworth wrote > On Mon, Dec 01, 2003 at 04:10:58AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > thank you for answering. Already helped me a bit. You were right - > > the transmitting power of my cards is way too low. In case I hold my > > laptop far out of the window I will get associated with the access > > points (Citi-Net Wireless Internet, citinet, citinet-public), but as > > it is raining today I won't do that for too long ;-) > > > > Do you have any idea where I can buy such a Engenius 200mw adapter? > > Not the Engenius, necessarily, but the SMC 2532, which may be a badge > engineered version of that card -- and of which I wrote a short review > (laudable) here about 3 weeks ago -- is available from Page Computer > (www.pagecomputers.com), though I'm damned if I can navigate their > silly search interface tonight; I think it's borke. :-) > > I paid $51 for mine, with a duplicate for my sister and 3 day > shipping it was *still* under $120. They will ship next day, if you > want to pay for it. List is $90, it might still be cheaper than > retail depending on where you are. > > I remain happy with it: 200mw, reportedly higher receive sensitivity, > removable patch antenna with dual external antenna jacks. And it > doesn't suck my battery down all that horribly much harder. Hasn'f > failed to do anything I ask it to, including running with Linux wlan- > ng > (you likely will need to use that instead of the default drivers) > and run Kismet just nice. > > Cheers, > -- jra > -- > Jay R. Ashworth [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Member of the Technical Staff Baylink > RFC 2100 The Suncoast Freenet The Things I Think Tampa Bay, > Florida http://baylink.pitas.com +1 727 647 1274 > > Come see Linux Gazette in our new home: www.linuxgazette.net! > -- > general wireless list, a bawug thing <http://www.bawug.org/> > [un]subscribe: http://lists.bawug.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless -- general wireless list, a bawug thing <http://www.bawug.org/> [un]subscribe: http://lists.bawug.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless
