Legacy Wavelan stuff.

[Jamz at AirNet.Com.AU]

If you are using the older type ISA WaveLAN cards, they don't handle the
hidden transmitter problem at all and only really work effectively when they
can all see each other.  You could conceivably use a machine with two of the
cards on different channels as a bridge, but people that have tried this
reported leakage out of the cards causing interference problems across the
channels.

I am not familiar with your WavePoint 1 bridge but keep in mind the Legacy
ISA WaveLAN cards are NOT 802.11 compliant.

Sorry to be a bit of a downer, but I have had these problems and recently
sold my ISA cards for just these reasons, as they were really only good for
a single point-to-point setup.

Cheers,
	Jamz.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dent, Mike [mailto:m.dent at lancaster.ac.uk]
> Sent: Tuesday, 18 September 2001 7:15 PM
> To: 'wireless at lists.samba.org'
> Subject: Legacy Wavelan stuff.
> Importance: Low
> 
> Hi, I have begun setting up some wireless networking to my neighbours, we
are
> going to share the cost of a SDSL link.
> I'm using a Wavepoint 1 unit and legacy wavelan cards in the neighbours
PC's.
> 
> I'd like to know if the Wavepoints will handle point to multi-point
correctly.
> i.e. Do they some how poll the clients to see if they have
> any data to send?
> 
> My concern is that not all the neighbours will be able to communicate with
each
> other directly, due to antenna position etc but they can
> all communicate through the wavepoint bridge ok. Will they end up
transmitting
> on top of each other or does the wavepoint/wavelan
> code take this kind of scenario in to account?
> 
> thanks,
> Mike
> 
> 
> > --
> > Mike Dent,
> > Chief Technician,
> > ISS,
> > Computer Centre,
> > Lancaster University, Lancaster, LA1 4YW.
> >
> >
> >