The Apple AirPort is really cool!

[zippy]

I'm posting from a mac laptop using an AirPort- it's really sweet actually! It's quite fast too!

It's hooked up to my SMC Barricade router and is getting just as fast of speeds as on my PC with a 10/100 NIC with cat5.

I'm impressed actually!

Haha, btw, this is a pimped out G3 400 laptop- normally with 64MB RAM- now with 576! hahahahah! It's actually pretty nice...good looking 14" LCD too.

It's just a lil annoying...cuz it's MacOS.

 

[zippy]

whoa...

 

[Viper GTS]

It's just standard 802.11b, right? It's available on PC, it just doesn't have a fancy name.

Viper GTS

 

[IaPuP]

Yeah.. any standard 802.11 compatable wireless LAN card will work perfectly on AirPort networks. Lucent makes one, so does DLink and Linksys I think. ANd 3com..

*Shrug*

and it's 12MBps I believe... a little slower than 100Mbps, but still respectable

Eric

 

[zippy]

Yeah, it's standard 802.11, it's just cool. Lucent has an "AirPort" out (coming out?) with a 2350ft range aparently. This stuff is my sister's boyfriend's (he is a mac consultant)- and it's damn cool!

 

[BFG10K]

The bandwidth isn't that great. Also I read somewhere that the encryption strength was too low for you to use it to transmit sensitive data such as credit card numbers.

 

[chiwawa626]

PLEASE DONT TALK ABOUT APPLE ON THIS BOARD.
OR BE BAND.
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Just kiddin

 

[Crimson]

That would be "banned".. a band is a group of people playing instruments and singing..

 

[jeremy806]

Surfing from a notebook right now with a D-Link 802.11b USB adapter in this and in the desktop upstairs. Very cool. 11Mbps is faster than the cable modem.

As for security, there are a few holes. I would not fear transmitting my credit card number or anything else sensitive occasionally, but I would not use 802.11b in the workplace on a continual basis. My thoughts.
jeremy806