Frank McPherson: Networks

Here is a table comparing low-price 802.11b gateways.

I have a 3COM Bluetooth USB adapter and an Orinoco Silver 802.11b card in my Dell notebook computer, and I don't experience problems with interference, which are described in this article. I was concerned about interference when I bought the 3COM adapter, but so far that hasn't proven to be a problem. It might be in how I use Bluetooth, which is for short connection times to synchronize my iPAQ. My wife has reported problems with her PC which is connected to the network using HomeRF.

Concourse launches Minneapolis/St. Paul service on March 20: my story in tomorrow's New York Times (scroll to third item). Minneaplis is the latest airport to come online with wireless LAN service. [80211b News]

Computerworld: Wireless LANs gain over cellular. Anderson isn't alone. A growing number of U.S. localities, including the California cities of Glendale and Oakland and counties of Orange and San Diego, have embraced Wi-Fi technology as the high-speed wireless backbone of their networks. [Tomalak's Realm] The drum is slowly beating towards more and more Wi-Fi rollouts, and I think the BigCo mobile phone providers may be in serious trouble because Wi-Fi is very empowering while their offerings are tinted with lock-in.

802.1X can be toppled 'like set of dominoes': "Wireless LANs are STILL insecure" This is cool.. I collected this headlin via NewsIsFree.

GSM-WLAN Roaming Enabled. Vendors to demo combined technologies [allNetDevices Wireless News] Very interesting.

My review of the 3Com 11 Mbps Wireless Workgroup Bridge at O'Reilly Networks Wireless DevCenter: the 3Com bridge is a small and simple device that lets you hook up to four wired Ethernet devices (via a non-included Ethernet hub) into the bridge to connect to an existing wireless network. No reconfiguration of the Ethernet devices is required, nor do you need a special AP.[80211b News]