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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 29 June 2002 10:18 pm, Kai Hendry wrote:
I am thinking of investing in a PCI and PCMCIA 802.11b NIC for my parents farm. I think that is the way things going. I wonder if I we make the papers for being the first holiday cottage / b&b with wireless internet access ! It is about 60 quid a NIC but is so hassle free ain't it? No hubs and no cables.
some random thoughts on wavelan: i use the orinoco gold cards, and they are pretty good, range wise - reach half way down my road (Salisbury Rd in plymouth - it's looooong) on a good day. however, in my flat in london, it only just reaches to the front door - some kind of intererance i guess but never worked out what. The wall's aren't *that* thick. an interesting dicovery i found when i had a party at my house and we were playing with it - if every turned their mobile phones off, the range was better. Though i don't see how 15 odd mobile phones could affect it, it cerrtianly did. almost 2 years ago we did some experimental range testing with a number of Estate agents in outer london, the idea was to build up a grid off them to offer hi-speed wavelan access across london to the estate agents. We were using directional antennas and got from richmond where our main offices were to sheen, about 4 km - the speed was only 2mbit. in the end we gave up playing, as we had better thigns to do, and the legal situation was a bit sticky ;) ~ Theo - -- Theo Zourzouvillys http://zozo.org.uk/ Think twice before speaking, but don't say "think think click click". -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE9Hibk448CrwpTn6YRAjjgAJ40yzGj+lXXdVrsvZpTT9uf4loLYQCfSqzN 1dXl2+Lh05caQWuePLqxRRo= =/pC4 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the message body to unsubscribe.