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Thanks for the great information. I will take a look at that model
On Sun, 05 Jun 2005 20:12:31 GMT, "Eras" <none@nospam.not> wrote:
>"Hoopster" wrote in message
>> Hello,
>> I was looking at the Linksys or the Microsoft MN-740.
>> On ebay it looks like they are going for about $50.00 or so for the
>> microsoft model, and a little higher for the linksys.
>> Has anyone seen any deals on the store for these?
>> Can anyone recommend one over the other?
>> Any help would be appreciated.
>
>Hi,
>
>I'm not familiar with either of the two products you mentioned above, but if
>you are just looking to save a few bucks then I can recommend the following
>wireless-ethernet bridge: DLink DWL-810+
>
>http://www.dlink.com/products/?pid=21
>
>Google and shop around and they often come up ~$30.00. I found good deals
>on them in the past so now have four of them. Works just fine with XBox,
>PS2, Dreamcast (with BBA adapter), and also has been wonderful to allow
>friends to easily connect to my WLAN with their laptops when they don't have
>any wireless hardware. Everything built right into the box so no drivers or
>anything needed. Intended hardware to use with it just sees it as a simple
>ethernet drop. In fact, I use one of these animals with a Solaris box
>because of it's simplicity. Its a small, little, "cute" animal as well --
>hardly any footprint with it. Configuration is straight forward and simple
>as its web based -- simply just point your browser to it's IP (ethernet
>connection or over-the-air). Range is pretty good, especially receive.
>Often I can see one of my neighbor's SSID's on them when no other wireless
>hardware in my WLAN is picking it up.
>
>Its an 802.11b animal, but thats usually more than adequate when all you
>need is a pipe to the internet -- in which case your cable/dsl modem is your
>main bottleneck anyway. I'm using a Tri-Mode (802.11a, 802.11g/b) router/AP
>and a second AP (running as a repeater) as I need to pass a lot of data
>around locally (I do video work) and use 802.11a for local traffic. For
>internet "appliances" (consoles, media players, ect) 802.11b has proved to
>be just fine for an internet-only pipe.
>
>You may want to consider the particular of your router/AP when deciding on a
>bridge though. Manufacturers usually have their own proprietary schemes to
>allow for "turbo" data rates beyond the vanilla 802.11a/g/b specs. Often if
>any hardware on an SSID is not capable of one of these "turbo schemes" then
>that capability is disabled for everything on that SSID. I'm using all
>DLink (with turbos) that allow (in theory and the perfect RF clean lab
>environment) 108 Mbs for 802.11a, 802.11g and 22Mbs for 802.11b. Of course,
>I never actually get that amount of bandwidth but the turbo does increase
>the pipe somewhat substantially.
>
>Cheers!
>-E
>
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