Excerpts from mail: 1-Oct-100 Re: Wireless ethernet advis.. by Ted
Lemon@nominum.com 
> The airport doesn't take an external antenna.  Not a problem when
> you're using it to replace internal wiring.   The airport costs $300 -

Actually, the standard Lucent card it has internally has an antenna
socket on it, and people have hooked up the ~$100 omnidirectional
antennas from Lucent into them.

I'm pretty sure that the internals of the Airport base station are
entirely out-sourced.  I believe there is or will be a PC company
selling one (in a much blander, probably beige case).  THe device also
uses an 80186 as a CPU.

gopi.



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