After price drops of about 90% in two years, 802.11b became finally a serious alternative for home networking, and I would recommend you to consider it.
Advantages: 1. No need to work, to make holes, to build tunnels in the walls, to break anything, etc. 2. Flexibility: you can go with laptops etc. to anywhere at home, including the toilet, etc. You also don't have to plan everything and to know in advance where exactly anything will be placed. Disadvantages: 1. Security: if you don't want neighbors to sniff your internal traffic, you should install VPN's, or use the latest protocol (I heard that the last WEP is safe, but I'm not sure). 2. Bandwidth: don't expect 100Mbps. But usually it's not an issue, unless you plan to provide TV/video over IP. Sometimes, the communication may be so weak so even very fat walls (such as MAMAD) might block even simple communication. My own opinion: use the latest 802.11b, with double bandwidth and improved WEP. Either you will have to give up the MAMAD, or wire it to your hub (point-to-point). -- Eli Marmor [EMAIL PROTECTED] CTO, Founder Netmask (El-Mar) Internet Technologies Ltd. __________________________________________________________ Tel.: +972-9-766-1020 8 Yad-Harutzim St. Fax.: +972-9-766-1314 P.O.B. 7004 Mobile: +972-50-23-7338 Kfar-Saba 44641, Israel ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
