[MLB-WIRELESS] Fwd: RE: $30 wireless cards

[Ben Anderson]

Hmmm, at that price I'd consider buying a box myself...

Anyone got any "real" details on this so far vapor deal?

Ben.

> > To save bothering George over and over I've posted his reply to my
> > questions to the list.
> > I suggest we all go in for a bulk order... at $30 I'd say the bendigo
> > crowd will be in for at least 6.
>
> Hmm, at $30, they do sound interesting...  Yeah, I know, they're not
> 802.11b, but this is a case of possibly getting something instead of
> nothing.  Since I need to route my way out of home anyway, the next hop
> could gate to 802.11b.
>
> My main questions are:
>
> 1.  Are the cards ISA, PCI or PCMCIA?  I can only handle PCI or PCMCIA at
> this stage, as I have the Linux notebook or the Win2k desktop.
>
> 2.  Are they FHSS or DSSS?  FHSS has a lot of potential problems for me,
due
> to the high probability of fairly high powered transmissions in the 2.4
GHz
> band (DSSS gear can be set to the top end of the band, away from my ham
> stuff :) ).
>
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