Wifi Devices

[Charles Yao]

>
>     I have a PC-card in the machine I drive to work; it was one of the
> Walmart cheapies, and it works very well. It's very, very cold outside,
> or I'd dig up the brand name.  It uses the Atheros chipset, and was only
> like $40 or so.
>
>     I just wish it had an ex tenable antenna; without it the entire PC
> has to be raised up to get a signal out the windows.  :)
>
>     I've used the Linksys products for APs; it was nice, but the Belkin
> "Wireless G" is a good little unit, too.  Setting it up is probably a
> LOT easier from Windows, but I don't have that here, so I had to fiddle
> with it.  The unit has good, high speed, is very reliable, and can
> operate in the classic router/firewall mode, or an access point mode,
> where it puts mobile units on the local net.
>
>     I hear that Orinoco is good, but I've not tried it. AirSnort (for
> packet analysis) has a special driver for it.  Oh- and use
> NetworkManager; it's a handy way to hook up.
>
>     Let us know what you got, and how ya like it, aye?



Hi Brian,

Any particular model you could refer me to?

Charles


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