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What To Do With Old 802.11b Equipment?

Posted by timothy on from the confuse-the-wardrivers dept.

CyberSlugGump writes "I am trying to declutter, and I have come across my cheap, off-brand, consumer-grade 802.11b wireless routers, PCMCIA cards, and USB adapters. The routers would still be good as 4-port 100Mb switches, and the other devices have at least 32-bit Windows XP drivers available. However, lack of security beyond WEP and the age of the equipment makes me wonder if it is worth any time putting it to use."

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  1. Re:Trash them or donate them! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    do you even know how much of a time difference there is tween a 286 and wifi dipshit?

  2. Re:Trash them or donate them! by damnfuct · · Score: 0, Troll

    OMG better save your Athlon XP chips because they are about as valuable as your 802.11b equipment.

  3. Re:I think it's a good question. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    ... a AMD Athlon XP 2800+, 1GB RAM running Ubuntu 8.10 back then... Haven't gotten any news since).

    -- you actually managed to give away equipment without getting tech support calls about it every week for the next 5 years? Please provide more details.

    That's cause it had Ubuntu, and they had no idea that it even was a computer! They didn't see a start button and they trashed it for you.