[Ti] Inexpensive Basestation options?

[Chris Olson]

On Friday, February 14, 2003, at 10:07 PM, Robert Nicholson wrote:

> So, folks who don't spring for an airport using cable or dsl what are 
> you using with you tibooks? I remember reading recently some threads 
> about inexpensive basestations that delivery most of what the airport 
> does. I don't need a modem as I won't have a phone line where I am. 
> Ideally the cheaper options would provide WEP (for what that's worth) 
> and offer better range than the airport but still co-exist with 
> Tibooks and be easily configurable from a Tibook.

I guess I haven't found any IEEE 802.11b wireless basestations that 
don't work with the wireless network card in TiBooks.  I have 
personally used various models of Belkin, DLink, and Linksys WAP's, 
WEP's, and wireless routers, and the Ti will connect to every one of 
them.  At work, my gigabook will connect to our Belkin F5D6130 WAP at a 
distance of ~600 ft in a completely different building than where the 
WAP is located.  MacStumbler shows a signal strength of 30-32 and noise 
of ~6.  A fluid ping to the router shows almost no packet loss at that 
distance over the wireless link.  Previously, we had an Apple Airport 
Basestation on that node and couldn't connect to it in the same 
building in some places.
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Chris Olson
Administrator
AST Communications,  Inc.
Barron,  WI   USA