[geeks] bridging networks with wireless

[Charles Shannon Hendrix]

Wed, 18 Oct 2006 @ 12:32 -0400, Sandwich Maker said:

> " From: Phil Brutsche <phil at tux.obix.com>
> " 
> " 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.
> 
> intellectual property protection too; make it harder for competitors
> to analyze and reverse-engineer your product.

Yes... but that's true of all markets.

Why do they specifically go overboard hiding details of *WIRELESS*
cards, while pretty much doing nothing to deliberately obfuscate
their other cards?

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