In message <20030806180425.6d63402b.rumble@ephemeral.org>Steve Rumble writes
>On Wed, 06 Aug 2003 13:26:35 -0400
>Rafal Boni <rafal@pobox.com> wrote:
>
>> Folks:
>> 	Anybody out there have good experience running NFS over 802.11? 
>
>Yes, version3 over TCP and UDP. I've used it for a long time mostly to
>stream audio over prism cards, as well as for swap, src/ and pkgsrc/ on
>my ibm z50. This has been with NetBSD hosts on both ends, as well as a
>freebsd hostap machine at one distant point. I have never had to deviate
>from default mount parameters.

I've used a variety of 802.11 devices. I found performance in general,
and NFS in particular, varie wildly depending on the card/chipset, the
base station or wireless peer, and ambient RF environment.

In a woodframe house on a biggish lot, NFS over genuine Lucent Orinoco
Gold cards was good enough to just cat audio to /dev/audio, with no hiccups.

At work, with other 802.11 base stations above and below, using a
Netgear card [someone stole both my orinocos!] some 20 meters from a
commodity base station, througput is often barely adequate for telnet.