Re: Wireless ethernet?

Richard B. Johnson (root@chaos.analogic.com)
Tue, 10 Aug 1999 10:02:29 -0400 (EDT)

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> More recent stuff includes Proxim's RangeLAN and Symphony cards, and the

General information:
Proxim's RangeLAN sucks. It has a throughput of about 50,000 characters
per second when transferring data between two PCs a few feet apart with
no other machines running RangeLAN.

Maybe other spread-spectrum stuff works better, but this is the pits.
I thought it was broken so I got several sets (PCMCIA boads), they
all had the same problem. Telephone calls to Proxim were not answered.

However, email was answered with: