Mailing List os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com Archived Message #1979

From: "Howard Winter" <os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com> Full Headers
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Subject: Re: [OS2Wireless]Re: Card Suggestions
Date: Thu, 06 Apr 2006 16:59:06 +0100 (BST)
To: "OS/2 Wireless Users Mailing List" <os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com>

I'll just add my thoughts/experience to the pot:

1.  Wireless is never as easy as a wired setup - if you can run the cables neatly and so that nobody trips
over them (or if you don't care! :-) then use wires.  It's faster, easier to configure, more reliable, more
secure and unless you get a firm in to install the wiring, cheaper, too!

2. If you really do want to run OS/2 wireless, the easiest way is with an external WiFi gizmo which plugs into
the PC's ethernet port, as described by Daniela in the article that Mark cited.  I have a pair of Asus WL-330g
units which I carry when I'm travelling, and even though one of my Thinkpads has an OS/2-supported internal
WiFi card and antennae, I use the Asus because it's so much simpler!

I think the WL-330g is available in the 'States for about $65 (I paid about UK£40 each for mine), but you'll
need the other end of the link too, so don't overlook the cost of a WiFi Router or Access Point.  You could
use another WL-330g as an Access Point (a switch on the back changes its function) which is very handy for
example at conferences to set up your own "hot spot", but for a permanent installation I'd go for a "proper"
AP.

Cheers,


Howard Winter
The H2Org
http://www.ecomstation.co.uk



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