8 Jul
2004
8 Jul
'04
11:12 a.m.
On Thu, 08 Jul 2004 14:01:01 +0100
"Rob O'Donnell" <classiccmp.org(a)irrelevant.fsnet.co.uk> wrote:
At 13:04 08/07/2004, Christopher McNabb wrote:
My wireless network here really exists only because it was a 'why not?'
proposition recently. The cheap Linksys router I was using to share my
DSL connection died for some reason, and it turned out to be just as
cheap to buy one now with a wireless port on it. At the same time I
bought the cheapest wireless card I could find. I connect an almost
on-topic (quite old) Toshiba 486 laptop with it for portable web access.
Wireless gateways are so cheap that for me one ended up being a free
add-in.
On Thu, 08 Jul 2004 09:40:13 +0000, Jules
Richardson
<julesrichardsonuk(a)yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
I have wireless here, but it's only for a single laptop that gets
carted all about the house. Everything else is mostly connected by
Cat5 Ethernet, at 100Mbps. It works OK...
(Interestingly, there seems to be a huge drive
toward wireless at
the
I think that wireless installations that are slow and/or unreliable
probably have configuration issues or interference from other
sources.