[CUBE] Somewhat OT: Airport questions

[Eagle]

On Jun 22, 2004, at 14:22, Joseph B. Gurman wrote:
>     Chris Weiss wrote:
>
>> There are a number of USB 802.11g adapters out there - the question
>> is, will they work with the Cube's USB 1.1 ports.
>> USB 1.1 is only rated for 1.5Mb/sec, which is far slower than 802.11g,
>> but as fast as 90% of the consumer internet connections out there.
>
> [snip]
>
>     With respect, speak for yourself, Kemosabe: our home broadband 
> provider is Comcat, who deliver 3 Mbps downloads quite reliably, in 
> our neighborhood at least.
>
>     In addition, if one is trying to share a "server"-type resource, 
> such as a backup disk or tape system, via a wireless network, the 
> _local_ bandwidth is critical. 55 Mbps would be a lot nicer than the 
> nominal 11 Mbps (but much more like 3 - 4 Mbps) we can get through our 
> older AirPort at home. For full (as opposed to incremental) backups, I 
> generally move the machines to a place close enough to our 10/100 
> switch to connect them by Cat-5. If the machines were new enough to 
> take AirPort Extreme cards, I could leave them where they are.

And, depending on the size of the full backup, even 100Mbps ethernet 
might be too slow -- that's where Firewire target disk mode might come 
in handy. :)

Eagle