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I picked up one of those Linksys Wireless network Access point dohickies today. my present set up is this.
3 computers really close 2 my hub and a laptop, a computer about 25-35' away, and a work bench about 75'-85' away. will it be able 2 reach all of those U think?
i mean is there a maximum amout of computers that can use one of these? I know they are kinda slow but Im only using it for my cable modem not file transfering....that is what burners and zipdrives are 4.
How exactly does it work? I see I plug it into my usb prot...what else should I know? I guess that is Kind of annoying if my puter is off it doesnt work then?
Let us know how you like it. I have been thinking about getting one too. Here are the specs from the website:
High-Speed Transfer Rate of Up to 11 Mbps
Interoperable with IEEE 802.11b (DSSS) 2.4GHz-compliant Equipment
Provides Roaming, Best Access Point Selection, Load Balancing, and Network Traffic Filtering
Supports up to 32 users/nodes
Long Operating Range Supports 120m (indoor) and 300m (outdoor)
Hardware Wired Equivalent Privacy
Works with all standard Internet Applications
sorry, I just had a bad time with one of those things. I plug it in, start doing a small file transfer, the cell phone rings, and all hell breaks loose! I have a single MP3 that the computer thinks is 2 1/2 gig all of the sudden, and I can't delete it either.
Plus...if you have more than 2-3 computers on it, it becomes quite slow. These things really don't reach 11mbps like they say. In Zdtv reviews they had them reaching about 3mbps. So the more computers you add, the slower it gets. I'm not sure about range.
The technology is great, but way to new. It's like buying the first year of a new car, it's bound to have a bunch of problems. Give them 2 years to work out all the kinks
I friend of mine just setup a 3 floor government office with them. A few months ago actually, used the orinico ones and they said it works like a charm, said worst case about 4-5 megs/sec, they put 2 access points on the farther parts of the middle floor and the 1st and 3rd floors are working just fine, so I would hope that 75 feet or so should be no problem.
was thinking about it. what I can do is leave the 3 computers that are nearby the switch wired and use the wireless one for the one by my tv, laptop, and workbench. that soulds liek the best of both worlds. But I still dont get the USB part. whats it point?
All the real world feedback I've had about this has been pretty poor, the transfer rates were only around 2Mbps (maybe ok for what you want though), also things can interfere with it quite easily. Cordless phones, microwaves etc. Also as other people have said the more comps you have on it the slower it gets, although again this might not be too much of a problem for you.
Try it and see, I think the base unit is quite expensive but the NICs are better priced.
If it was me I would just run trunked Cat 5 along the walls although that may not be possible for you.
I have a client that uses one in his office - pricey system though, made by Lucent Technologies - it's the WaveLAN system: http://www.wavelan.com
Works VERY well and he doesn't even have the master station mounted high on a wall - it's under a table which is less than ideal. He has an office with 5 people using PCs and it works very reliably. I was impressed as I had not been sold on this technology previously.
Throughput is SUPPOSED to be 8 Mbit with the GOLD cards he's using, but I haven't tested that yet. They're only using it for Internet access and network printing so it's a pretty low bandwidth situation.
HOWEVER (important caveat here!) we're in a rural area and RFI (Radio Frequency Interference) is not a major problem here. In metropolitan areas it's a WHOLE different story.
[Edited by FlyingPenguin on 02-11-2001 at 01:21 AM]
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I work in the same deparment as Aironet and frequently get to play with this stuff. The 350 series is IEEE 802.11b compliant which is a fairly new standard for 11Mbps. Not all wireless LAN's conform to this standard. I believe the Linksys WNAP does but it doesn't rank well against the Cisco or Lucent competition.
Just like there are huge differences between competing 900MHz telephone vendors, same thing holds for wireless networks.
But I still dont get the USB part. whats it point?
