Wireless 11Mbps network card. Which is a good one to buy.

[MustISO]

It must use the IEEE 802.11b standard for wireless networking.
It also needs to support the 11 Mbps rate and
at least 40-bit WEP security.

 

[Daniel]

I'm interested in that as well, I know in one of the other buildings they used lucent cards, 11 meg a sec, and said they worked very well.
The cards themselves might have been sub 100 each but the hubs were like 1000 dollars from what I'm told. The used 2 hubs on a huge 3 floor office and put them both in the middle floor but they said for smaller applications the cards will just communicate themselves without the need of the hubs.

 

[MustISO]

I've found a bunch of PCMCIA cards that are 11Mbps but the only PCI card I can find is from 3COM and it's not released yet(AFAIK). Maybe a PCMCIA to PCI converter would would.

 

[Scorpion]

Very interesting. One of my friends works at Cisco and he's currently in charge of testing out this product and demonstrating it. It's a 11MB wireless ethernet card. If I find out the product name/number I'll post it here.

 

[MustISO]

Thanks ScoRp!oN, any info would be appreciated.

 

[Eug]

I am currently investigating this as well for my new home.

The hubs are horrendously expensive, but some people have been able to use the $300 Apple Airports with PCs using specific (hard to find) software. They use the 802.11 standard and are really just lucent hubs with "only" support for 11 machines simultaneously (unlike the 20+ that the lucent hubs support).

The main problem is no native support of PPPoE internet access, but that may change shortly.

I am fairly new to this so any info would be greatly appreciated.

 

[Soccerman]

umm for my school they have been considering using Wireless networking cards. no word on the speed though, they had great range..

 

[Scorpion]

Cisco 340 series (Aironet)
Comes in both PCI and PCMCIA

Wireless Ethernet is kind of expensive
Approx. cost of this card is $350

But you also need to buy the Transiever(Base Station).
That's probably more expensive.

 

[Lore]

Scorp!on: Yeah, my friend's got some access to the Aeronet line, too. I think I'm gonna get a couple of those to network the neighborhood up!

 

[Anibus]

your looking at over $1000 for the access point. I was looking at the Cisco and the Runabout by Cabletron.

 

[MustISO]

All I need is the NIC. Our neighborhood is getting a T-1 line for internet access and in order to subscribe to the service we need to buy our own cards. I was just looking for something a little cheaper than the $300 that they were charging for the cards.

 

[zetter]

The Lucent Orinico ones work well too.

Of course, they're all (Lucent, 3Com, Aironet) interoperable.

 

[arthurb1]

I got one for my internet service, it is an Aironet model 340...expensive but neat stuff...I wish Diamond still amd home free wireless (do they?) and an acces point for it...I want to get my laptop in on this i-net action.