Speaking of wireless

Andrew W. Gaunt quantum at lucent.com
Wed Aug 28 08:55:14 EDT 2002


Just adding a data point for the discussion:

I've got a Lucent Orinco access point (no surprise since
I work for Lucent) and like it. It's configured to act
as a 'bridge' between the wireless segment of the home
network and the wired side. I've got a linksys router
connecting everything to the WAN on wired side and
the heavy hitting machines are wired to it.

For wireless clients, I've got an IBM laptop which has
an Orinoco PCMCIA wireless network interface. The kids'
PCs are also  on the wireless side and are equipped with
Linksys USB wireless network adapaters. They work well
enough for the kids. Haven't done anything serious with
them however.

FYI - check out http://www.netstumbler.org for
some interesting reading re: 802.11. There
is a utility called netstumbler which can be used
to sniff around for 802.11 networks. Cool.

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