On Sun, 23 Mar 2003 09:57:06 est5edt, Charles McCallister
<Charles_McCallister@compuserve.com> wrote:

 

I've decided on wireless DSL using a 2Wire 1000SW router.
   

Personally, I'm waiting for all of the OS/2 compatible stuff, Cisco, Linksys,
and so on that Oliver mentioned to come out. When it does, I'll buy enough
stuff to go wireless for my office.

I think the infrastructure is going to be 802.11b for a while, sure the
manufacturers would like us to go with 802.11g, but the deployers seem to want
802.11b. I could not care less about the manufacturers, but, at least with the
laptop, I care quite a bit about the deployers.

In my neighborhood, there are a lot of coffee houses, or cafes. All of them are
worried about Starbuck's, because although Stabuck's coffee is too diluted to
compete in our market, wireless access is important, and Starbuck's is supposed
to have that. I think, but I do not know, that it is 802.11b.

I expect a local business to equip all of our local cafe's with a package of
DSL, an access point, and some Linux-based management software. I'm really
hoping to use that package, because it would be wierd to sit in a Starbuck's in
my home town.

But on the road, I'll take any access I can get.

Neil