[Cu-wireless] Node hardware recommendations

[Sascha Meinrath]

Dave pretty much summed up everything -- I have all the equipment you
would need to buy and we can sell you any parts you need from our
stockpiles.  I'm leaving town for two weeks starting next week, so if you
want to get things set up quickly, we could do this very soon.

Let me know,

--Sascha

On Mon, 7 Jul 2003, Kristjan Onu wrote:

> A friend and I live about a block apart and are thinking of sharing an
> Internet connection wirelessly. It looks as though we're a little too
> far apart (by less than 200ft) to use a regular access point so I've
> started to look at slightly more specialized hardware.
>
> Since we're almost within reach of current CUW nodes (W. Elm, between
> Coler and Busey), it seems like a good idea to get hardware that will
> make it easy to join the CUW.
>
> For the radio card, I'm leaning toward the SMC "long-range" model
> (SMC2532W-B). Using it in a spare desktop computer will require a
> PCMCIA to PCI adapter. Any suggestions for this (I haven't found the
> $35 adapters David Young mentioned)? Information on antennas would
> also be appreciated.
>
> Kristjan