Cisco Aironet 350 Access Points are "Line" powered, and are 100Mw in power, providing better range and speed. Most AP's, including the Cisco 340 , are 30 Mw - big difference. The older Aironet4800 E Turbo's are also 100Mw, but only support 40 Bit WEP. You can get all of these on Ebay...
This may be overly simplistic, but my NT4.0 , SP-1 machine is working with an AP350 and a Cisco 350 ISA Client card. (I was unable to get the machine to recognize the PCI version of the card)
Here are the stats from the ACU (status) on the PCMCIA:
Firmware V5.25.05
BootBlock version : 1.50/ISA...
I'm not sure this helps, but I set up a Cisco AP340 and 340 PCMCIA for a friend's network. It worked just fine until she got a different Laptop with a built in Orinoco (Lucent) wirless client. It saw the AP with 90% power level, but wouldn't connect. As soon as I slid the Cisco 340 PCMCIA card...
Regarding signal strength: I have numerous AP's in my LAN - 2 Cisco (Aironet) AP4800's (100Mw), 1 Cisco AP340 (30Mw), and one Cisco AP350 (100Mw). The building is three stories, heavy metal construction in the walls (lots of glass). The 2.4Ghz signals travel vertically very well, but not well...
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