On Tue, Sep 11, 2001 at 01:50:59PM -0400, Andrew Brown wrote:
> >The Compaq WL 110 is in fact OEM of Orinoco's Wavelan card. It even
> >has Lucent Tech 's printing saying that. In Australia, Orinoco Gold
> >cards sell for over A$400 but this Compaq card, 128 WEP Encyption, is
> >selling for A$274.
> 
> two things come to mind.
> 
> (1) both "orinoco" and "wavelan" are names that are printed on the
> stickers on 802.11 cards coming from lucent, so which is it based on?
> there are subtle differences between the cards...
> 
> (2) that price seems a little steep...or is that just the "import
> tax"?

Wireless networking products are unnecessarily expensive in Australia
at the moment. Many other computing technologies are `on par' with
prices in the USA, however.