Wireless solutions. Anyone have?

[BC]

Ok I am looking at getting a linksys wireless access point and Cable/DSL router. MFR# BEFW11S4 has anyone tried this or similar products and had much luck?

Or if there are other WIRELESS solutions?

Thanks,
BC

[wedor]

I installed a wireless access point from Linksys and was less than impressed. Once I got it going it worked fine, it was getting started that was a pain. Seems you have to use a USB cable to set it up for use on a regular network connection. The speed of wireless is also not impressive but it has it's uses.

[MTAtech]

I've done this on a mixed wired network of Windows, Macintoshes on a Win NT Server as the network domain controller. I used the Apple Airport, which is a wireless router made by Lucent.

I have the Airport connected to a network switch port. It is assigned an IP address from my DHCP Server (Win NT Server). This server also acts as a proxy server to my cable Internet connection. (The server is dual-homed [has 2 network cards, 1 for the local network and 1 for the Internet].)

As a result, my laptop is wirelessly connected to my network and I can sit out in the yard and surf the Internet or print to a network printer.

I find the 11mb connection no problem. The Internet is slower than that. If I wanted to, I could share the Internet with my neighbor since the range is to their house.

[BC]

Ahh did not think about that...yet.
I went ahead and bought one and set it up last night...Once I get my mind set.

I was supposed to hook up a regular nic into the thing to get it set up, BUT I just went ahead and put the wireless NIC into the other PC and fired it up to see what would happen. And would you beleive that it worked 1st try?

I really had it working in like 10 min.

And the speed is fast fast fast...Or at least good enough.
40KB/sec.
nice.

[kwebb]

I am assuming that is the speed of your net connection shared over your wireless LAN. 40KB/sec would be a joke. Do a file transfer. FTP transfers are your best bet at raw throughput benches. Well, for an easy data rate test. Not sure what brand you went with, and they do vary, but you can expect about 550-650 KB. Somewhere between 4.5-6 Megabit.

[BC]

Yes 400 sorry the extra 0 didn't get typed http://www.sysopt.com/forum/wink.gif

And that was an average......You mileage may vary.

No Now that I think about it 40KB/sec is right. which is about 400 K/sec

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[kwebb]

No, 40KBps would be about 350-450 Kilobit (Kbps). A moderate dsl or cable connection. Not bad for internet connectivity but terrible for LAN speed

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[BC]

That is what I was meaning. My internet connection via this wireless thingiemajig. Not worried too much about the LAN portion quite yet. Not sharing too much. I was just wanting to be able to share the internet connection.

[BC]

That is what I was meaning. My internet connection via this wireless thingiemajig. Not worried too much about the LAN portion quite yet. Not sharing too much. I was just wanting to be able to share the internet connection.

[kwebb]

My bad. I see what you were saying now. Midunderstanding, and yes, you should see no real deterioration of speed across your WLAN with those kind of lower internet speeds.

[BC]

And would you believe that I was getting 100KB/sec DL's last night from Compaq?

But I was getting some "minor" Problems with the thing. It would loose the connection every so often. Not sure what that is all about. Have to investigate closer.