wow, great products & prices. if anybody finds better technical specs for these than http://www.diamondmm.com/homefree/specs.html, please post. they don't describe power requirements or weight at their site so far. if these products are based on the aerocomm designs (http://www.aerocomm.com/oem.html and http://www.aerocomm.com/products.html#oem) then they could be quite low-power. not clear that they are, though, since they seem to use a protruding antenna, not built-in like the aerocomm (but maybe they do this just to get outside the pc sheilding?). n@ -----Original Message----- From: R. Paul McCarty [mailto:rpmc@troi.cc.rochester.edu] Sent: Thursday, August 06, 1998 10:18 AM To: wearable@cif.rochester.edu; wear-hard@haven.org Subject: New wireless NICs from Diamond Saw this article mentioned in Slashdot about a new NIC from Diamond Multimedia that allows you to network pcs at 1mbps using 2.4GHz radio frequencies up to 150ft. This isn't all that impressive until you note they are selling either 2 nic cards for $200, or 1 nic card and one PCMCIA card for $230. http://www.next-generation.com/jsmid/news/4107.html Of course you can pick up an IBM network card for $20/each, but no one's written any drivers for it, but they might for this one. The cheapest linux supported wireless network cards are the DEC roamabout which sell for $300-$400/each (figure 2x=$600-$800). -Paul -- R. Paul McCarty / DARS Coordinator / rpmc@troi.cc.rochester.edu / x52059 317 Lattimore Hall, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY 14627 Computers don't make errors; what they do, they do on purpose.-Dale/KOTH
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