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Linksys Ships Dual-band, Tri-standard A+G Wireless

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the all-skate-everyone-skate dept.

Anonymous Howard writes "Designtechnica has a news article about LinkSys shipping to market their new line of wireless dual-band, tri-standard A+G products. They support 802.11a, 802.11b and 802.11g simultaneously with speeds of up to 54mbps. I could actually bring my laptop home and not have to switch my wireless card and settings! It comes at a pretty hefty price though, $299 for router and $279 for access point. I think my fingers could handle the exercise a bit longer until prices come down. Who here is willing to fork out that much for tri-band gear?" This is exactly what I've been looking for since I got an 802.11g wireless card. All of the 802.11g access points I've seen couldn't operate in 802.11g mode so long as older cards were in the area. Finally, I can upgrade my systems over time.

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  1. Linux support... by Munra · · Score: 5, Informative
    Before anyone else says it, there are Linux drivers available, although they are in their early stages.

    The wlan-ng project has early stage support for the wusb12 card.
    More details available @ the Linux-USB device site.

    Luckily they don't use the hideous Broadcom chipset, which still does not have Linux support, even though it's sold in Dell, Linksys, Belkin and Apple (new Powerbooks, anyone?) wireless products, to name but a few. *grr*

  2. B-Card Holders; (the new smokers) by LibertineR · · Score: 5, Funny
    I can see it now.

    You are in your favorite coffee house, zipping along at G-speed, when some loser B-Card holder opens up that ancient Apple boat-anchor, and slams the whole building down to B-Speed.

    We are looking at the new "smoker" to be admonished, segregated and finally kicked to the curb for daring to fuck with our precious bandwidth, the way that smokers fucked with our oxygen.

    Soon, you will see them outside on the street, shivering in the cold, huddled together over warm repeater, taking digital drags of packets, polluting the internet environment with their dropped bits, and NAT requests.

    Scorn them, outlaw them, as they fuck it up for the rest of us. Let them connect in their poor neighborhoods, where you can still see the bitches walking the streets crying "Hey Daddy, I'll suck your dick for an IP address. Hook a bitch up!"

    Losers.