[CUWiN] Good Wireless card for nodes?

Shankar Rao srrao at uiuc.edu
Wed Aug 18 16:52:11 CDT 2004


Hello I am interested in setting up three nodes around town. I believe  
all of these locations are within range of other nodes.

location #1: 311 W. High St.
location #2: Illinois and Cedar
location #3: Broadway, between Washington and Nevada

I'm looking to buy the proper equipment for all of these places. Is  
there a certain type of PCI wireless card I should get? I figure that I  
probably don't need an 802.11g card, but I would want one with decent  
Unix support (since the node software uses NetBSD).

Here are a couple candidates:

Belkin PCI 802.11b
http://www.staples.com/Catalog/Browse/sku.asp? 
PageType=1&Sku=497237&bcFlag=True&bcSCatId=3&bcSCatName=Technology&bcCat 
Id=58&bcCatName=Networking&bcDeptId=1806&bcDeptName=Wireless%2D+B+%28802 
%2E11b%29&bcClassId=141713&bcClassName=Wireless%2DB+Cards+%26+Adapters+% 
28Desktops%29

D-Link PCI 802.11b
http://www.officedepot.com/ddSKU.do? 
level=SK&id=835939&location_info=SG_3_DV_18_SC_1803011_SK_835939

Linksys PCI 802.11g
http://www.compusa.com/products/product_info.asp? 
product_code=292350&pfp=cat1&tabtype=rb


I'm leaning toward the D-Link, because it seems to strike a good  
balance between price and driver support.

Does anyone know any good places to purchases antennae for these nodes?

Any help would be appreciated.

Shankar


"If what they say is 'Nothing is forever', then what makes Love the  
exception?" -- OutKast



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