Wireless questions

Fri Jan 31 08:32:10 PST 2003

Wups, I missed this in the first pass, sorry.

There are now off-the-shelf boxes that implement one of two wireless
protocols that will do 11Mb/s, 802.11g and some kind of extended
protocol that specifically works with Apple AirPort.

Here's a link on troubleshooting wireless cards, which also includes
links to some mfr's cards that run 11Mb (such as my Orinoco Gold card):

http://www.laptop.lib.utah.edu/global/inst/wireless_troubleshooting.html

You might find the following LISA papers of interest, all about
dealing with a freeform computer lab environment where you have
folks who are authorized and folks who may or may not be:

Dealing with Public Ethernet Jacks - Switches, Gateways, and Authentication
http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/lisa99/beck.html

NetReg: An Automated DHCP Registration System
http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/lisa99/valian.html

cheers,
Strata

David Wolfskill wrote:
> >From: "Brian Street" <brian.street at bayarea.net>
> >I thought it probably should be because most of the bottleneck might be in
> >the wireless side anyway since it can't operate at 10 Mb yet, right?
> 
> It's true that the wireless generally doesn't get to 10 Mb/s; but the T1
> is only 1.544 Mb/s -- and 802.11b definitely can swamp that, no problem.

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