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Mail From: rzander01 (Ron Zander)

Hey all,

This is totally NMC but I'd like to know if anyone out there is running a
wireless network at home??
>From my reading, 802.11b standard is the most popular and runs at 11/Mbps
which is fine. My concern is that since it uses the 2.4GHz frequency range
that the newer cordless phones and the WiFi wont co-exist peacefully. If you
are running the 802.11b out there with a 2.4GHz phone I would like to get
your feedback.
Alternately I could go with 802.11a which runs at a much faster 54/Mbps and
uses the 5GHz frequency range. This is newer technology and looks good but
equipment is not made by as many vendors and it's much more expensive. Also
I have not seen a PCI card for 802.11a, only a PCM card which could be put
into a desktop with an adapter (I think).

My whole reason for this inquiry is simple, my room mates room is down at
the other end of the house (which is where I like it), and right now we have
a long cable running into my office for her to have access. I really don't
feel like running a cable up the wall, thru the attic, and back down another
wall. Also, they just added a wireless network at school so I'm considering
a WiFi card for my laptop. Of course the school is using 802.11b so that's
another consideration.

Thanks in advance,

Ron Zander
Currently Miataless

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Mail From: pmoisse (Paul Moisse)

my girlfriend's school runs a wireless network and it works really well. By
a company called D-Link. Not sure about any of the particulars but she gets
really good speed out of it, all this while working in an RF environment
with cell phones faxes pagers etc.

www.dlink.com I think

hope this helps

Paul


>From: "Ron Zander" <(email redacted)>
>Reply-To: <(email redacted)>
>To: <(email redacted)>
>Subject: [Miata] (NMC) Wireless networks
>Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2002 10:38:22 -0700
>
>Hey all,
>
>This is totally NMC but I'd like to know if anyone out there is running a
>wireless network at home??
>From my reading, 802.11b standard is the most popular and runs at 11/Mbps
>which is fine. My concern is that since it uses the 2.4GHz frequency range
>that the newer cordless phones and the WiFi wont co-exist peacefully. If
>you
>are running the 802.11b out there with a 2.4GHz phone I would like to get
>your feedback.
>Alternately I could go with 802.11a which runs at a much faster 54/Mbps and
>uses the 5GHz frequency range. This is newer technology and looks good but
>equipment is not made by as many vendors and it's much more expensive. Also
>I have not seen a PCI card for 802.11a, only a PCM card which could be put
>into a desktop with an adapter (I think).
>
>My whole reason for this inquiry is simple, my room mates room is down at
>the other end of the house (which is where I like it), and right now we
>have
>a long cable running into my office for her to have access. I really don't
>feel like running a cable up the wall, thru the attic, and back down
>another
>wall. Also, they just added a wireless network at school so I'm considering
>a WiFi card for my laptop. Of course the school is using 802.11b so that's
>another consideration.
>
>Thanks in advance,
>
>Ron Zander
>Currently Miataless
>
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Mail From: miatalist (Per K. Nielsen)


> This is totally NMC but I'd like to know if anyone out there is running a
> wireless network at home??
> From my reading, 802.11b standard is the most popular and runs at 11/Mbps
> which is fine. My concern is that since it uses the 2.4GHz frequency range
> that the newer cordless phones and the WiFi wont co-exist peacefully. If
you
> are running the 802.11b out there with a 2.4GHz phone I would like to get
> your feedback.

I've got 802.11b, a DECT telephone and a 2.4GHz wireless video/audio
transmitter working in a one bederoom apartment without interference.

802.11b has numerous channels, as has telephones and other equipment, so
don't worry too much about it.

--
Per & Pixie
(94 Classic Red MX-5)

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Mail From: ppc603ev (Andrew Koch)

802.11b is very tolerant of interference, and with the correct
antennas, has an incredible range.

I'm running an 802.11b network from an Apple AirPort base station to
my Laptop in my house. The house is 3,500+ square feet and 3 floors
plus a basement, and I can be anywhere in the house, even the
basement and it works fine, and that's with the stock internal
antennas.

My location in tow is what makes things interesting.

I live less then a mile from a very powerful (500,000 + Watts)
television transmitter on TV Channel 11, which is in the range of
198-205 MHz, and almost exact 10th of the networks frequency.

I am also in line with several microwave links to various radio
transmitters on a hill behind my house, not to mention the numerous
pager and cell-phone transmitters on that same hill.

Oh, also the City of Pittsburgh Public Safety has their transmitter
on a different hill nearby, and they are transmitting on 400-460 MHz
and 800+ MHz.

So all that being said, I'd say that 802.11b is very tolerant of
interference :)

Andrew
Also Miataless

>Hey all,
>
>This is totally NMC but I'd like to know if anyone out there is running a
>wireless network at home??
>From my reading, 802.11b standard is the most popular and runs at 11/Mbps
>which is fine. My concern is that since it uses the 2.4GHz frequency range
>that the newer cordless phones and the WiFi wont co-exist peacefully. If you
>are running the 802.11b out there with a 2.4GHz phone I would like to get
>your feedback.
>Alternately I could go with 802.11a which runs at a much faster 54/Mbps and
>uses the 5GHz frequency range. This is newer technology and looks good but
>equipment is not made by as many vendors and it's much more expensive. Also
>I have not seen a PCI card for 802.11a, only a PCM card which could be put
>into a desktop with an adapter (I think).
>
>My whole reason for this inquiry is simple, my room mates room is down at
>the other end of the house (which is where I like it), and right now we have
>a long cable running into my office for her to have access. I really don't
>feel like running a cable up the wall, thru the attic, and back down another
>wall. Also, they just added a wireless network at school so I'm considering
>a WiFi card for my laptop. Of course the school is using 802.11b so that's
>another consideration.
>
>Thanks in advance,
>
>Ron Zander
>Currently Miataless
>
>_______________________________________________
>Miata mailing list
>(email redacted)
>realbig.com/mailman/listinfo/miata


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Mail From: frankpc (Frank Catena)

Absolutely true. We've done a number of commercial installs and it seems to
be pretty solid. Now if you had asked if its secure I'd have a different
answer .....
802.11b is a great solution for the home, I laugh when it seems that the
homebuilding industry has just started embracing Cat5 cabling. Behind the
curve, as usual.
We also use 2.4 Ghz transceivers to extend baseband video and audio in our
home. Beats running cable in a lot of situations ....
Frank Catena '96M

> 802.11b is very tolerant of interference, and with the correct
> antennas, has an incredible range.

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Mail From: ppc603ev (Andrew Koch)

Well, security is an issue, however I'm not entirely concerned. My
network is running a 128 bit encryption, so I'm not too worried about
eavesdropping.

However, with a network that isn't properly secured, anyone can log
onto it. I've sat in airports and logged onto generic 802.11b
networks with my Powerbook before.

Andrew
(Still and yet Miataless)

At 9:07 PM -0500 4/25/02, Frank Catena wrote:
>Absolutely true. We've done a number of commercial installs and it seems to
>be pretty solid. Now if you had asked if its secure I'd have a different
>answer .....
>802.11b is a great solution for the home, I laugh when it seems that the
>homebuilding industry has just started embracing Cat5 cabling. Behind the
>curve, as usual.
>We also use 2.4 Ghz transceivers to extend baseband video and audio in our
>home. Beats running cable in a lot of situations ....
>Frank Catena '96M
>
>> 802.11b is very tolerant of interference, and with the correct
>> antennas, has an incredible range.
>
>
>
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Mail From: keith (Keith Tanner)

I used to run 802.11b at home and at work. It was great - I set the two up
with the same encryption key so that my laptop was always online, no matter
what. I also had an iPAQ on the network as well as the two desktops and one
laptop. My house is old (90+ years) and I really didn't want to run a bunch
of new cables around. Besides, with my desk phone forwarded to my cell I
could work while sitting at the picnic table in my backyard and nobody
could tell :)

Never had any complaints at all. An AirPort took care of NAT and general
network security for me. The WTA encryption hole wasn't a big deal to me
because someone have to be parked outside my house to break in to the
network - and in my neighbourhood, that's pretty obvious :)

Meanwhile, a friend just paid a big chunk of change to have his house wired
while being built. And he still can't use his computer in the garage...

Keith
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