[plug] Wanted: dirt cheap wireless LAN

[Onno Benschop]

On Thu, 2003-01-02 at 16:53, Leon Brooks wrote:
> Looking to set up a wireless (and when I say wireless, I mean exactly that; 
> optical or supersonic would be fine) link over maybe 120m LOS, bandwidth is 
> almost irrelevent, anything better than a modem is fine, cost is a paramount 

If bandwidth is irrelevant, what concern do you have for latency. I mean
a Boeing 747 filled with CDroms flying across the Pacific has great
bandwidth, but the latency is a killer.

On that note, given that you're only needing to travel 120m, you could
setup a catapult on both sides with a catching glove and shoot CDs
across the gap :-) 

> consideration. If I can plug LEDs and phototransistors into an AUI, lens them 
> and get 10Mb, great. Any suggestions?

You could of course spend money and just buy two 802.11 wireless
adapters for about a $100 each. The time you spend frigging around with
LEDs, pringle tins, etc. will cost more.

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