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On Mon, 2004-12-06 at 17:59, Robin Cornelius wrote:
Hi all, I have spent some time hanging around the ralink forum over the last few months...
Well done Robin. The more hardware thats supported through GPL the better ! Keep up the good work. I chickened out of having a wireless cards in my home network and used the US robotics "black box" (yes it is black) network -> wireless with a built in web engine / dhcp for configuration purposes. They work ok'ish but 802.11b performance tails off rapidly after the first few meters after that (luckily) it settles down for a usable distance but still slow :-(. I have however great hopes for the future of wireless networking esp. in 3rd world countries where infrastructure is difficult to obtain / maintain. For example in the Philippines it takes months to get a land line but you can go into a shop and buy a mobile over the counter and be up and running, better still Im told you can buy a sim chip and put it in (certain models) you existing phone. There are still some "political" / "bureaucratic" problems to be solved before "freedom" can be obtained in some of these countries "wireless networking" requires permits permits = $. Also wireless may end up like the early internet (no official regulation of addresses / frequencies etc.). Mesh networks seem to be the in thing at the moment ( apparently there's a big one in south hams area where cable refuses to go !). see: http://www.kingsbridgelink.co.uk/ Tom. -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the message body to unsubscribe.