[TriLUG] desktop wireless NIC
Jeremy Portzer
jeremyp at pobox.com
Wed Nov 20 09:27:48 EST 2002
On Wed, 2002-11-20 at 08:19, H Brett Bolen wrote:
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> John Franklin wrote:
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> >On Wednesday, Nov 20, 2002, at 00:56 US/Eastern, Jason Tower wrote:
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> >> question for all you wireless folks out there: if you needed to set up a
> >> desktop PC with a wireless connection, would you use a PCI card or USB
> >> adapter? any particular make/model? thanks in advance -
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> >Without knowing anything about the quirks of either solution, I would
> >lean towards a PCI card for three reasons:
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> I lean the other way. The reason is that my pc is under the desk and
> there are couple thousands cables behind there. I figure that I can
> move the antenna around with the usb adaptor to get better reception
> if I need to.
Many PCI wireless cards come with an external antenna and some length of
lead wire -- the cheapest ones don't, so always check for that.
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> do they require wall warts?
Referring to USB wireless cards -- all the ones I've seen take their
power from the USB, so no power adapters are used. The Linksys WUSB11
also comes with a wall mount which is pretty handy.
The wireless bridge thingy that Chris mentioned looks pretty neat too --
what is the difference between that and an access point? Just how it's
configured? (The Linksys WET11 does use a wall wart, by the way.)
--Jeremy
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