RE: More Wireless Questions

["Timothy Morris" <timothy.morris@xxxxxxx>]

Andy,

I'm being very pedantic here, but there ARE PCI cards available. Both
Compaq and 3Com offer a native PCI WLAN card. The nice thing about the
earlier Compaq cards is that they have a rubber ducky antenna on the
back so if you can find the correct reverse polarity/reverse thread
connectors you can make antenna extensions (I have two which sit behind
the monitors on desktops so they aren't shielded by the system units.)

While we are on the subject:

For those of use who still use peer to peer networks, Windows XP makes
the whole thing a lot easier with "zero configuration wireless".
It
should be called "minimal configuration wireless", but it will
make
roaming between more than one signal easier.

The other thing it does is wrap the whole thing up in the same security
as a VPN (as we all know card based encryption is not particularly
secure, and carries a performance hit), just in case someone is sitting
outside trying to sniff out your network :)

I intended to type this last night, but was suffering from a mild
migraine, which really interferes with my ability to touch type (I know
which key I need to press, but end up hitting the wrong one 2 goes out
of three - I'd like to see Mavis Beacon get to grips with that one :))

Tim.

-----Original Message-----
From: Andy Laurence [mailto:andylaurence@xxxxxxx]=20
Sent: 07 February 2002 08:36
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [ukha_d] More Wireless Questions

> > exception of my Fujitsu(s).  You'll need a PCI > PC Card
> > bridge, and an aeerial would help matters, but Win2k ICS
> > should do it fine.
> PC world were selling pci>PC cards at 30 quid(about) to clear them
in
my
> local store.
>
> I am not sure it's the best way, by the time you have paid for the
card
> and a pci>PC converter you are almost up to the price of a AP, if
at a
> later date you change/add to your setup you will have much more
> flexibility with the AP

True, but for those of us who bought PC Cards when APs were =A3500 a pop,
a
PCI converter makes sense ;-)

Andy
--
PC-Based Multimedia System
http://www.andylaurence.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/pcbmms


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