Oh, if anyone cares. Our webstore is at www.winningimages.com.
The Symbol Wireless Networker is linked on the frontpage. Sells for $147 + shipping (lowest shipping $6 ground).
No matter what PDA you have, 802.11b is a battery drain. Partially from the radio and partially from the likelihood that your PDA will spend more of it's time actively being used than in standby mode.
The Handera 330 does indeed support the Symbol Wireless Networker Type I CF 802.11b card. The Symbol lists for $180, but there are a few online places that have it for around $150 (including my webstore). None of the other CF wireless cards have Palm drivers (with the exception fo the Socket CF Type I which is an OEM of the Symbol)
As for the Xircom 802.11b Visor and m500 series modules, pricey is the right word. Go to pricegrabber and do a search on Xircom Visor and you will find retailers who still have the Visor module.
The nice thing about the Visor module is that it has it's own battery separate from the Visor, but web browsing from your Visor will eat batteries from the extended continuous usage.
As for the m500 module, I've never used it, but it also has it's won battery.
If you go with a Pocket PC based device, you have more wireless options. Either PCMCIA (Ipaq) or CF Type II and Type I. And you'll be able to run more things that will make having wireless access more useful. Like VNC, Windows Terminal Services, stream MP3s, access windows file shares. Pocket PC devices are meant to be laptop replacements, Palm devices aren't.
I ran into this problem a while back. I have a multimonitor setup on my primary machine, but wanted to control my laptop that was sitting next to all the monitors. So I really didn't need a K V or M. Just USB switching.
So I got myself just a plain 3 position USB switch and some long USB A to B cables. I feed my usb keyboard and trackball into a hub and then into the switch. The switch itself is $25. Problem solved.
Here's the switch I use:
http://www.cablesnmor.com/usb-switch-box.html
I also use win2vnc from time to time, but it's lack of wheel support, ALT-TAB support and misunderstanding of multimonitor can make it very confusing to use.
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That would be odd since the Socket CF is a Symbol with a different sticker on it.
The Symbol CF card is just a little smaller than the SMC one and does better power management.
Though the Symbol does cost more on average.
I know the D-Link may be cheap, but how in the world do people put up with that shovel hanging off their PDA?
Oh, if anyone cares. Our webstore is at www.winningimages.com. The Symbol Wireless Networker is linked on the frontpage. Sells for $147 + shipping (lowest shipping $6 ground).
No matter what PDA you have, 802.11b is a battery drain. Partially from the radio and partially from the likelihood that your PDA will spend more of it's time actively being used than in standby mode.
The Handera 330 does indeed support the Symbol Wireless Networker Type I CF 802.11b card. The Symbol lists for $180, but there are a few online places that have it for around $150 (including my webstore). None of the other CF wireless cards have Palm drivers (with the exception fo the Socket CF Type I which is an OEM of the Symbol)
As for the Xircom 802.11b Visor and m500 series modules, pricey is the right word. Go to pricegrabber and do a search on Xircom Visor and you will find retailers who still have the Visor module.
The nice thing about the Visor module is that it has it's own battery separate from the Visor, but web browsing from your Visor will eat batteries from the extended continuous usage.
As for the m500 module, I've never used it, but it also has it's won battery.
If you go with a Pocket PC based device, you have more wireless options. Either PCMCIA (Ipaq) or CF Type II and Type I. And you'll be able to run more things that will make having wireless access more useful. Like VNC, Windows Terminal Services, stream MP3s, access windows file shares. Pocket PC devices are meant to be laptop replacements, Palm devices aren't.
I ran into this problem a while back. I have a multimonitor setup on my primary machine, but wanted to control my laptop that was sitting next to all the monitors. So I really didn't need a K V or M. Just USB switching.
So I got myself just a plain 3 position USB switch and some long USB A to B cables. I feed my usb keyboard and trackball into a hub and then into the switch. The switch itself is $25. Problem solved.
Here's the switch I use:
http://www.cablesnmor.com/usb-switch-box.html
I also use win2vnc from time to time, but it's lack of wheel support, ALT-TAB support and misunderstanding of multimonitor can make it very confusing to use.