I have installed an ethernet card, I want to confirm this is just for access to my internal network, correct. It is not a wireless web browsing tool. What is the range, or should it say it on the card, and if I stay in the range I sho8uld be able to get internet through my newtork, I want to avaoid dialing up, and I want to use the DSL from the offfice. I have heard of other types of crads from SPRINT and such for wireless web access, do I need one of these to get the internet.
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Wireless card should connect to a wireless control box which will put you on a network. Then use internet sharing, wingate, or other internet sharing tool.
Ranges vary. 200 to 300 feet depending on what is in the way. Look for the specs.
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Ranges vary. 200 to 300 feet depending on what is in the way. Look for the specs.
Ed Fair
efair@atlnet.com
Any advice I give is my best judgement based on my interpretation of the facts you supply.
Help increase my knowledge by providing some feedback, good or bad, on any advice I have given.
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Thanks for the reply. So in order to get true wireless web acess, for far distances I would need to get a different card. Is that correct? or is there another solution. I am looking to do presentations, with a laptop without as many wires as possible. Would my ethernet card, be configured to my network, or could I take it anywhere that has a network and get in through theirs. I am thinking that this is not possible b/c of passwords and settings and such, it would probably be to much?
Your wireless uses radio to connect to a box that in turn connects to a network.
Intersting article in latimes technology section on the web about the expansion of services to airports and the like where you can use your wireless to connect to the internet. Otherwise limited to transmission distance to your control box.
You want mobile freedom, you need a service named "Richochet".
You would take your control box and connect to another network to allow you access. Your ethernet card is configured to your computer on one side, to the control box on the other side. The control box will configure to the network on the far side. With all the pitfalls that you can imagine in hooking into incompatible networks, including speed problems and nic addressing problems. Ed Fair
efair@atlnet.com
Any advice I give is my best judgement based on my interpretation of the facts you supply.
Help increase my knowledge by providing some feedback, good or bad, on any advice I have given.
Intersting article in latimes technology section on the web about the expansion of services to airports and the like where you can use your wireless to connect to the internet. Otherwise limited to transmission distance to your control box.
You want mobile freedom, you need a service named "Richochet".
You would take your control box and connect to another network to allow you access. Your ethernet card is configured to your computer on one side, to the control box on the other side. The control box will configure to the network on the far side. With all the pitfalls that you can imagine in hooking into incompatible networks, including speed problems and nic addressing problems. Ed Fair
efair@atlnet.com
Any advice I give is my best judgement based on my interpretation of the facts you supply.
Help increase my knowledge by providing some feedback, good or bad, on any advice I have given.
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