I can only report on the DLINK 1000AP, which works transparently with Lucent/Orinoco card (no encryption, but no config needed either), and also works fine with the Dlink 650 card (have to config the
AP 1st and the only way I could figure out how to do that was to use WinNT on the laptop, set the ID and the various encryption stuff and then it also worked fine).

Distance sensitivity for the Dlink card and AP seems to be a bit less than with an Orinoco, but mounted high in our garage (a bit off center for the house) it gets to all points in our house without
problems and even far enough for my neighbor to use it in all points in his house as well, allowing him to hop onto my cable modem, making him a VERY happy camper..

From past postings you can see that the Orinoco is better supported under Linux, but the card (and especially the AP) are more expensive. The AP is 3 times cost of the Dlink AP, I think (but also has
better range as well, and some nice features - there was a brief writeup on some of these combos in Infoworld about a month ago, I think.

Aha!

http://www.infoworld.com/articles/tc/xml/01/02/19/010219tcwirenet.xml

hjm

seanj wrote:
>
> I would like to install a cheap AP, nothing special but I need it fully
> configurable under Linux or FreeBSD.
>
> What experience do you have with
>
> Linksys
> Dlink
> SMC
> Hawking Tech
> Addtron
>
> Access Points?
>
> It seems rather difficult to figure out the level of remote support these
> products have from their manufacturer's web site's.
>
> MIB I or II ?
> telnet in ?
> web interface ?
> MAC based ACLs?
>
> Thanks, Sean.
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