RE: wireless was Windows XP Questions...

["Phil Harris" <phillip.harris1@xxxxxxx>]

I'm using the silver cards because:

 

1) They're cheaper.

2) 128 bit WEP has been cracked anyway.

3) They were all that were available when I bought it.

4) I don't care if someone wants to snoop on my wireless traffic anyway.

 

I have cards in my devices (for example I'm typing this in the bath on my laptop) and I have one that goes in the ePod but I have the RG1000 residential gateway that works as a bridge onto my 10/100 wired LAN so that I can get to my network printer and router. I no longer use the modem in the access point to dial out as I changed to Home Highway...

 

Phil

 

 ----Original Message-----
From: Mike Griffiths [mailto:mike@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 27 October 2001 12:12
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxxSubject: RE: [ukha_d]wireless was Windows XP Questions...

 

Sorry Phil

I'm still confused with the wireless cards

Do you run two cards ie one in a PCI adaptor and one in the epod?

or do you run one card in the epod and one ethernet adaptor?

and I presume you need the gold not silver

 

Mike

At Home

-----Original Message-----
From: Phil Harris [mailto:phillip.harris1@xxxxxxx]
Sent: Sat 27 Oct 01 11:51
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxxSubject: RE: [ukha_d] Windows XP Questions...

Cheers Mike,

 

So what happens if you have been using the XP box by being logged on to the box itself and then you try to start up a "remote desktop connection"? I think I only need one active session at any one time as it'll only be me that uses the thing anyway!

 

For wireless LAN use then I think the generally accepted "rule" is that the Lucent ORiNOCO cards are the best performing ones in so far as holding a good signal over a distance. John Hill came over to mine the other day and he had a couple of Linksys cards that he wanted to get working in an ePod and in a CF-01 connecting to his main PC and he was having range problems ... we tried the Linksys cards in my kitchen (about 10m straight line from my ORiNOCO access point but through several walls, a hot water tank and a floor) and there was no signal, swapping in my ORiNOCO cards gave me a borderline four/five out of five strength/quality signal. I think Mark McCall had the Linksys stuff and found the same and found that swapping to the ORiNOCO cards sorted the issue ... it seems that the Linksys access point is very good though.

 

I got my wireless stuff from www.unwired.co.uk an they were *VERY* helpfull and very quick ... arrived next day no problem.

 

Phil

 

Any of you guys that are running XP Professional ... could you check up on a couple of things for me?
[Mike] Yes I've just put it on a new machine 

 

Does XP pro support a terminal services session (for use from ePod etc.)?
[Mike] We think so , but it is now called remote desktop connection

BUT we have tried it (logging on from a machine running Win 2K server) you have to loose control of the XP machine , your programes still run in the background but all you get is a log on screen whilst the XP is acting as a slave, we are still playing with it really but it seems that if you want full terminal services you need Win 2k server

We have got that running as a stand alone server (no Monitor keyboard or mouse) with the XP remote desktopping to that, this works like a very very very fast VNC

so far I've connected to 2 PC's running win 2k server and had 3 different profiles all running their own progs on the one XP machine

BUT as for having another machine working from XP it seems that one is the limit

Havent tried  my epod yet as I'm still tring to figure out which wireless system to buy

Any Ideas ?

 

What's the hardware support like? Will it use Windows 2000 drivers for example?
[Mike] seems to and if like me you cant get drivers for the video card it seems to have a good supply  of generic ones 

 

I was hoping that the 50Mb of Windows XP Upgrade Advisor that I downloaded last night would tell me this morning whether Win XP supported the hardware on my main PC but it won't run on that machine as I have Win 2000 Server on there and it refuses to run on that platform!

 

Phil
[Mike]  

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