RE: Wireless LANs

[yahoogroups@xxxxxxx]

oh dear.. replying to my own posts...

heres the review I spoke of below...

http://www6.tomshardware.com/network/20030117/index.html

p.


Quoting yahoogroups@xxxxxxx:

> Tim,
>
> LinkSys have said to me "soon" I would therefore reckon
within the next two
> months... they are already releasing new firmware for some other G kit
- so
> the WAP cant be too far away.  TBH I havent tried the WAP with another
card
> (I
> sold all other PC card taking devices when I got the powerbook
(couldnt
> justify keeping a "ibm compatible" laptop!) so it might work
fine with a
> linksys G card.
>
> I have seen somewhere (I'll try and hunt it out) that the WAP WILL NOT
WORK
> in "mixed mode"  In that mode its either G or B at a time,
if a G card is
> connected then as soon as a B card connects, the stream drops to a
point of
> almost no data transfer - this is not good and something which I hope
LinkSys
>
> will also fix soon.
>
> I think the biggest problem with G is what has been touched on so far
in that
>
> the final G standards have only just been decided, but manufacturers
have
> been
> churning out G kit for quite a while now using their own standards -
we are
> bound to discover problems like this.  I chose the LinkSys kit as as I
> believe
> it they are the only people to offer a firmware update to the final G
spec
> once it was completed.
>
> As always with these things early adopters are the ones who get the
problems
> -
> this hopefully means that because of the early people once the kit
comes to
> mass market all the problems are ironed out.  I wouldnt forget about G
quite
>
> yet, but I would think carefully about whether you want something that
"just
>
> works" or something that you are prepared to work on and play
with (being
> Techy this is what I would class as "fun" - how sad am I!)
>
> HTH
>
> p.