On Mon, 4 Feb 2002, Jeff Clark wrote: > Not true. I have two Orinoco cards installed in PCMCIA-to-ISA > bridges. One is in a PII-233MHz and the other in a 486-100MHz. > These machines provide a wireless link between my "main floor" and > "basement" subnets, and they both run at 11Mb/s (as long as I keep the > 486 next to the basement window; if I move it behind the wall, the S/N > ratio drops so low that the speed drops down to 5.5Mb/s or even > 2Mb/s). These cards are configured to use the IBSS mode (not the > Orinoco "Ad-Hoc" mode). > > It was a bear to get the kernel and drivers set up and working > correctly, but once I did (and stopped using a flaky Compaq as one end > of the connection), it works just fine. How much do you actually get out of the link? Shouldn't be able to get much more than 6-7mb/s, as the wireless headers suck up the rest.. -- Nate Carlson <natecars at real-time.com> | Phone : (952)943-8700 http://www.real-time.com | Fax : (952)943-8500