[Techtalk] More wireless

[James]

On Fri, 20 Sep 2002, Maria Blackmore wrote:

> On Fri, 20 Sep 2002, Davis, Jennifer wrote:
> 
> > I don't want to buy a wireless router as I already have a router, it's a
> > P200 running Slackware, and I am really happy with it.  Can I just add a
> > wireless card to the Slack PC and give it an IP and have the router machine
> > assign the IP to the laptop?  Am I not taking everything into account?
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Yes, you can do this, but you'll need to take into account things like
> security, and placement of the antenna if you can fit a small external
> antenna, or placement of the machine if you can't
> 
> The only catch is that by doing this you will be running in ad-hoc mode
> instead of infrastructure mode, so you might notice the throughput is a
> little lower than what you might be used to.

I thought the "software base station" setup was still infrastructure mode
- your base station just happens to be a Unix box rather than some
embedded system? The docs certainly gave me this impression when I
looked...


James.