On Fri, 8 Mar 2002, Andy Warner wrote: > Do you really want to buy from a brick-and-mortar store ? I guess the > usual suspects will carry stuff: > > best buy > micro warehouse > <others...> > > Unless you think you might be returning it, I'd figure out what to buy > and get it mail-order, myself. > > Most of the D-Link stuff seems to have very limited performance/range. > > Linksys is better, but not by a great deal. In my experience, Linksys AP's are fairly decent, but the Linksys cards suck. > I've had good experiences with the SMC 7004 AP, it seems to have good > performance/range. Haven't heard great things about their PCMCIA > cards. > > There is a zcomax PCMCIA card with an RP-SMA connector that makes > adding an external antenna easy, the XI-300. Beware, the XI-300B does > not have the antenna jack. XI-300 is actually a RP-MMCX card (I've got one sitting next to me).. I believe the Proxim OEM card of the XI-300B has the RP-SMA on it. > Lucent/Orinoco/Agere/<various OEMs> PCMCIA cards are good performers > with a tiny antenna connector. Very good cards. > Cisco cards are stellar, if you can find one in your price range - > check you're getting one with an antenna jack, though. Yeah, you want a LMC series, instead of the PCM-XXX. > With any of the APs that you might buy, be sure to flash them to a > more recent version of the firmware from the suppliers web page, > because out-of-the-box, most of them will crash on you regularly > (Lucent, Cisco and Apple are mostly expempted from this hall of > shame..) > > What are your criteria: price, range, features, hackability, > compatibility with [netstumber|kismet|...] ? -- Nate Carlson <natecars at real-time.com> | Phone : (952)943-8700 http://www.real-time.com | Fax : (952)943-8500