clueless wireless question

[Raymond Russell]

On Apr 12, 2004, at 11:16 AM, Net Llama! wrote:

> On Mon, 12 Apr 2004, Tony Alfrey wrote:
>>> There are quite a few different external antennas that will fit the
>>> APE you might be able to find
>>> one that will get the signal out to you.
>>
>> Yes, we found one with gobs of signal that is cheaper than the Apple
>> antenna!
>
> Yea, Apple's access point is one of the most expensive out there, and
> you're not really getting anything special.  As with most Apple 
> products,
> you're paying for the name & the aethestics.
>

Thats mostly true but the Apple base stations have a 56k modem, external
  antenna and a USB port.  You can even use the base station as a PPP 
server
and dial into your network.  I don't need these features so I use a 
$69.00 Linksys.

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Ray Russell
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