Dunno, never really measured it because “it’s fast
enough. I’ll plug in
the laptop and transfer a few 10Meg files back and forth later, and time
them
with a stopwatch. Once I have some results, I’ll post them.
Isn’t it
interesting that 3 months ago no-one on this list has
wireless?
Tim.
-----Original
Message-----
From: Mark McCall
[mailto:mark@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 15 January 2001
19:14
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: RE: [ukha_d] A little
wireless advice
Just
read this on review of Linksys AP....
"It
works great in the default Standard Mode. When I turned WEP (encryption) on
,
transfer rates dropped more than half. "
Have
you
noticed drop in performance with your encryption Tim?
M.
-----Original
Message-----
From:
sentto-1109639-5680-979583357-mark=automatedhome.co.uk@xxxxxxx
[mailto:sentto-1109639-5680-979583357-mark=automatedhome.co.uk@xxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Timothy Morris
Sent: Monday, January 15, 2001
6:16 PM
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: RE: [ukha_d] A little
wireless advice
1. Depends what you
want
Mark, but you are looking at around £100+VAT per card whatever you buy
– unless
you go for the old 2Mbit standard. I’m not sure that in a domestic
setting high
levels of encryption are totally necessary – unless you have someone
sitting
100 feet from your house in a van that has managed to establish your SSID
(it
is a key that you need to connect in a wireless network) – so I would
go for
the low encryption standard (40 bit is actually the same as 64 bit –
there is a
40 bit user key and a 24 bit system key). Make sure that you also buy kit
that
takes an external antenna – certainly at the server end. I would
recommend the
Compaq stuff – and I would be able to send you an extension lead
– but I have
no idea as to how long it will be until my connectors
arrive.
2. Yes, up to 255 in
total
– though net surfing may get a little slow with that
many!
Tim.
-----Original Message-----
From: Mark McCall
[mailto:mark@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 15 January 2001
17:51
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: RE: [ukha_d] A little
wireless advice
Looks like a wireless LAN would be very nice if I do get an
Epod. Few questions.
1.Can anyone advise on a UK source for cards that will work
with
Epod and iPAQ (and that don't cost the earth).
2.Can I run this peer-peer setup (as hoc mode) with BOTH the
iPAQ
and a Epod getting their connection from a single PC?
M.
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From:
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[mailto:sentto-1109639-5646-979565805-mark=automatedhome.co.uk@xxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Timothy Morris
Sent: Monday, January 15, 2001
1:37 PM
To: Ukha_D@Egroups. Com
Subject: [ukha_d] A little
wireless advice
It seems that I will no
longer be in the minority in running a wireless network at home. I went
through
the learning curve a couple of months ago, so I’ll share what I
picked up to
save you all going through it.
1.
Access Points are designed to be used in large facilities to
increase
network coverage. Unless you live in a mansion there is no need for one in
a
domestic situation. You can easily use an Ad-hoc network and ICS on the PC
you
have connected to the internet to achieve the same
thing
2.
If you have an existing wired network you can route between the
wired
and wireless nets by splitting the 192.168.0.x network into two subnets by
using the mask 255.255.255.128. On the first subnet the network address is
192.168.0.0 and the broadcast address is 192.168.0.127 with the remaining
126
addresses available. The
second
subnet will have a network address of 192.168.0.128 and a broadcast address
of
192.168.0.255. Windows will automatically set up the correct routing tables
for
packets moving between the three networks. That is what makes TCP/IP so
flexible.
Hope that helps. I
forget
sometimes, as this comes easy to me. I was setting up TCP/IP networks in
1988
fresh out of University.
Tim.