hurley bryan wrote: > can these work both ways: talk just to each other, say 4-XX number of > computers talking to each other with no base station: what is the limit? 2 - peer to peer without a base station. The base station is needed to coordinate time slots for any more. > vs: > needing the base station: Apple Airport work right? but needs a mac to > control? To control the Airport base station and use the encryption yes you do need to have MACs, but otherwise no. Others make base stations that are web or telnet configureable. > and are they compatible with the Aviator WebGear 2.4 in one of these > modes? Depends... Are they both IEEE 802.11 DSSS @ 2.4GHz? There is one gaping hole in the standard, and that is over the lowest hardware layer. Atleast most manufacturers are going with DSSS in the 2.4GHz ISM band. > I have collected what I thought were the best thoughts from the slashdot > discussion and put them at > http://www.gl.umbc.edu/~bhurle1/802_11.txt -- | Bryan Andersen || http://softail.visi.com | | Buzzwords are like annoying little flies that deserve to be swatted. | | -Bryan Andersen | -- Subcription/unsubscription/info requests: send e-mail with subject of "subscribe", "unsubscribe", or "info" to
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