Dell Truemobile - how useful??

[Manuel M. T. Chakravarty]

Aristotle <aristotle at ihug.com.au> wrote,

> I am about to get a Dell Inspiron 8200 with an internal wireless LAN
> card.  What can I do with it?  So far I seem to be seeing bad reports
> all over regarding range.  Should I just keep the wireless LAN card as
> some sort of backup or short range blue-tooth kind utility?  I was
> hoping I could get involved in a community based wireless LAN.

I have a Latitude with TrueMobile.  It's essentially the
same as an Orinoco Gold card, expect that it is a MiniPCI
card instead of PCMIA (but it is internally hooked up via
the PCMIA controller).  I seem to be getting about the same
range out of it as I do with an Orinoco PCMCIA (ie, just not
enough for all of my backyard :-/

Manuel