Wireless LANs
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I've been using a Cisco wireless LAN in the laptop and being able to sit in a seminar and deal with emails, post articles, chat on MSN IM etc is so cool. So who is using a wireless LAN in their office? (I know the Microsoft guys are). Has anyone taken the next step and setup one in their home? It would be so nice to be able to take a laptop anywhere in the house, out on the patio, sprawled on the lounge, on a table next to the bath... Hmmm - maybe there is such a thing as too much 'net. cheers, Chris Maunder
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I've been using a Cisco wireless LAN in the laptop and being able to sit in a seminar and deal with emails, post articles, chat on MSN IM etc is so cool. So who is using a wireless LAN in their office? (I know the Microsoft guys are). Has anyone taken the next step and setup one in their home? It would be so nice to be able to take a laptop anywhere in the house, out on the patio, sprawled on the lounge, on a table next to the bath... Hmmm - maybe there is such a thing as too much 'net. cheers, Chris Maunder
This has been on my mind quite a bit lately (as I fight with my daughter for use of the cablemodem connected computer at home... I see DLink has a whole package, wireless "hub" and a copy of 802.11 cards for about US$500. Looks pretty tempting.
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I've been using a Cisco wireless LAN in the laptop and being able to sit in a seminar and deal with emails, post articles, chat on MSN IM etc is so cool. So who is using a wireless LAN in their office? (I know the Microsoft guys are). Has anyone taken the next step and setup one in their home? It would be so nice to be able to take a laptop anywhere in the house, out on the patio, sprawled on the lounge, on a table next to the bath... Hmmm - maybe there is such a thing as too much 'net. cheers, Chris Maunder
I have had good luck with PhoneLine LANs in the home. Not wireless, but easy to use as it goes over standard phone lines, which are already in most rooms in a home. Runs at 10 MB and is cheap (about $40 for card/usb adaptor). LinkSys stuff work well and Netgear is to be avoided. Ed Dixon
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This has been on my mind quite a bit lately (as I fight with my daughter for use of the cablemodem connected computer at home... I see DLink has a whole package, wireless "hub" and a copy of 802.11 cards for about US$500. Looks pretty tempting.
Hi, I've been using Diamonds HomeFree cards for a few years now and it works quite well. I know there are better/faster cards around now and I have a feeling HomeFree Wireless may no longer exist. Being able to surf wirelessly on a Notebook is incredibly addicative and way cool.:suss: That said I wouldn't recomend it to any one like me who has little self control (can't turn the damn thing off). I often surf watching tv, in bed etc.etc. I have a Cable Modem and a Wired LAN + the Wireless LAN. My only gripe is that I can't find a way of connecting the two LAN's (subnets) together so I can get at machines on one LAN from the other. To work around this my notebook has both a wireless and wired LAN cards. If anyone knows of a way to connect subnets I'd love to here it.:-D Neville Franks, Author of ED for Windows www.getsoft.com
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I've been using a Cisco wireless LAN in the laptop and being able to sit in a seminar and deal with emails, post articles, chat on MSN IM etc is so cool. So who is using a wireless LAN in their office? (I know the Microsoft guys are). Has anyone taken the next step and setup one in their home? It would be so nice to be able to take a laptop anywhere in the house, out on the patio, sprawled on the lounge, on a table next to the bath... Hmmm - maybe there is such a thing as too much 'net. cheers, Chris Maunder
Chris, I'm currently planning to invest in D-Link wireless solutions. Recently my family moved to a new house, and drilling into 40cm concrete plate does not look very tempting :) I investigated several alternatives, and people at work recommended me D-Link as one of the most affordable and stable solutions. We're going to install Cisco at work. Cisco is probably better, but it's much more expensive and has some features that you won't typically use at home. And both D-Link and Cisco use same 11 Mbit protocol, so I'll be able to use D-Link PCMCIA card in my notebook with Cicso router at work. D-Link has wireless access point, PC card (PCMCIA), PCI card and USB module. I ordered access point, PC card for my notebook and USB module for my daughter's machine on the second floor. Although maximum distance is 100 meters indoors (300 meters outdoors), somebody say they have problems connecting rooms located in different parts of the house and different floors. I hope if I install access point somewhere in the centre of the house, I'll manage to connect to it everywhere. I can let you know about the results. My house is narrow but long (about 25 meters), and floors are separated by thick concrete, so if a single access point can cover it all, it will mean that the system is quite stable for personal use. If you decide you need some kind of wireless solution, it can be a good idea to buy something while you're in the States. If Australian resellers are like Norwegians, it'll cost you dear. For example, access point that D-Link sells for $299 in the U.S. is sold for 4900 Norwegian kroner (about $550). Win32/ATL/MFC Developer Oslo, Norway
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I've been using a Cisco wireless LAN in the laptop and being able to sit in a seminar and deal with emails, post articles, chat on MSN IM etc is so cool. So who is using a wireless LAN in their office? (I know the Microsoft guys are). Has anyone taken the next step and setup one in their home? It would be so nice to be able to take a laptop anywhere in the house, out on the patio, sprawled on the lounge, on a table next to the bath... Hmmm - maybe there is such a thing as too much 'net. cheers, Chris Maunder
I've currently got a Proxim Symphony WLAN at home. I've used Proxim stuff at work and found it reliable and well supported, and since I was using the WLAN partially as an excuse to learn some Linux setup stuff at home, I figured I go with a known quantity for the wireless component. It works well, I've got a Pentium running Slackware which acts as a DSL gateway with IP masquerading (aka NAT), as well as a firewall and Samba server for internal use -- I know, I really shouldn't have Samba and a firewall on the same box, but its secured pretty well, and I just don't think I'm that prime a target, except maybe as a zombie where Samba doesn't matter anyway. Everything works well (except for one, documented but unresolved W98 annoyance). Even though I've got two subnets, everybody can talk to everybody else. Best of all, my wife, who was skeptical at first, finds the wireless connection genuinely nice to have. One warning: This may be just a fluke, but within a month of getting the laptop, it fell (just a foot or two to the floor) in such a way that the Symphony card and its plastic attenna transferred all the impact to the inside of the machine where it damage the motherboard. Ouch$! I've now got a detachable attenna that won't do that, and if I could find an 802.11b card with a detachable antenna, I'd probably upgrade right away. Even so, the DLink prices are so appealing, I might anyway. sorry, i don't have a sig