"...not some proprietary Apple thing."
I can verify that this is true, so true in fact that if you take an
AirPort station apart you will find a Lucent Silver WaveLAN card inside.
Only downside with AiPort is:
- You need a Macintosh to configure it
- It has no way to add extenal antennas to boost signal.
These are not necessarily show stoppers given the amount of Mac geeks
at IETFs and if you have enough of them I guess the antenna isn't
much of an issue.
Now, I have heard mentioned that the AirPort has a limit to the number
of users it will support, but I don't know if this is true or how it
compares to the usual kit we use at IETF meetings.
Ole
Ole J. Jacobsen
Editor and Publisher
The Internet Protocol Journal
Cisco Systems, Office of the CSO
Tel: +1 408-527-8972
e-mail: ole(_at_)cisco(_dot_)com
URL: http://www.cisco.com/ipj
* See you at INET 2000, Yokohama, Japan July 18-21
http://www.isoc.org/inet2000