I recently connected an Inspiron 600m via wireless access point to my
router. Both AP (WAP11b) and router (BEFSR41) are Linksys. I now have two
desktops (XP and WIN98) wired to the router in addition to the wireless
laptop. All share a broadband cable. Before hooking up the wireless

I set up a wireless system from my desktop to my laptop and it was pretty
easy and it is working great.  One problem though:  I backup data from my
desktop to my laptop on a frequent basis and it is really slow since I
installed the wireless. Does anyone have any tips on speeding ...

My wireless connection keeps dropping out to my severe annoyance.
Yes I know - old subject - many have written about it but I haven't been
able to find an answer to my situation.
Here's the setup.

any cheap amplifier?
any  kit available in the market?

What is the recommended level of security for a home wireless network?
I have turned off DHCP serving, my AP will only assign a static IP address
to the MAC on my laptop. The way it is set up, my laptop is the only
wireless device that can tap into my wireless network. Or is it?

I am trying to capture the MACs in the frames. I need to know the time of
arrival of the MACs.
To get to the point, I have wired three signals from the Intersil Prism chip
set to a FPGA and logic analyzer.

To All:
My son is writing a report on the evolution and history of wireless
broadband, i.e., Wifi.  Although we've searched the web, we haven't found a
site giving us information on how Wifi evolved over the past decade.  Any

My pcmcia is too old for the newer cards out today. Is there a way to
use usb for wireless connection. I running Suse on my gateway 9300.

Bit confused:
I have heard about WiFi hotspots, which as I understand are the
short-distance internet services for WiFi (within 200m). This is
commercialy picking up pretty fast.

Can someone confirm that this card has 2 external antenna terminals ?
My intent is to install it as a mini-pci solution for my thinkpas A20p,
which
I've installed an IBM dual internal antenna from an A31p.

I am very frustrted..
I upgraded from a 802.11b linsys router/ap to a linksys 802.11g...had a
sorts of lost connection issues (much written about this here).
So I then invested in a DLink di624.

I've posted some of this in another post, but with a diferent subject line,
so I apologize to those who have read this in my other post.
I am considering the following two Wireless 802.11g access points for my
business:

My Wireless Connection is Unavailable after I upgrade from XP home to XP
Pro,  It is working perfectly before the upgrade. I haven't change any
setting at all.
Does anyone know why and how to fix it?

I have an SMC router (11Mb/s) and I have the following connected to it
Desktop    hardwired
Laptop      wireless card    (2 feet from the router)
Desktop    wireless card    (other end of the house - has low connection and

Got a big problem.
Just bought a Linksys WAG54G from NickKnows.com and it doesn't work!
I can get my Centrino laptop to talk to it wirelessly...and can use that or
a ethernet cable to browse onto the admin web page...but it will not find