Subject: Re: "airport"-friendly wireless networking?
To: Ken Hornstein <kenh@cmf.nrl.navy.mil>
From: Andrew Gillham <gillham@vaultron.com>
List: current-users
Date: 08/20/2000 16:35:21
Ken Hornstein writes:
> >I just wish I could get something remotely comparable to the Aviators I picked
> >up for around $70 each.
> 
> "You get what you pay for".  The Lucent cards do a fair amount of the
> 802.11 protocol (especially the roaming part) internally.  It's my
> understanding that the cheaper cards don't (and that stuff has to be
> implemented in the driver, and that's where different interpretations
> of the 802.11 spec come into play ...)

Are the Aviators even 11Mbit/s?  I thought they were still 2Mbit/s cards?
(e.g. a 2Mbit/s Lucent could be found cheap/used I would guess)

-Andrew