[geeks] bridging networks with wireless

[Phil Brutsche]

Charles Shannon Hendrix wrote:
> Also odd is how the manufacturers seem to go out of their way to hide
> the chipsets used in the cards.
> 
> Anyone know what is up with that?

$$$, they get a better deal for chipset y than they had for chipset x
previously.

To make things even worse, they change the chipsets they use on a
quasi-regular basis and "neglect" to change the model number or SKU to
reflect the change.  A wireless card could be the best ever one month,
and another "identical" card bought a month later could be a steaming
pile of crap.

Like I said before, the only wireless PCI cards worth a damn are Cisco -
AIR-PCI342 or AIR-PCI352.

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Phil Brutsche
phil at tux.obix.com