Re: [chat] Sydney Wireless Network

[Andre Pang <ozone@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Nov 05, 2001 at 12:17:11AM +1100, Andre Pang wrote:

> On Mon, Nov 05, 2001 at 12:09:37AM +1100, Jamie Wilkinson wrote:
> 
> > CSE at UNSW has had wireless for comp students and staff for a while now,
> > and the UNSW library also rent out wavelan cards to students who wanna type
> > up their arts papers on their ibooks whilst sipping latte on the lawn.
> 
> s/wavelan cards/useless pieces of crap which work about a tenth of
> 		the time, if there's a blue room around/
> 
> At least there's a (binary) Linux driver for the cards (Proxim
> RangeLans), which seems to work well, if you define 'well'
> according to the above.
> 
> The range of the wireless cards are rather shocking too.  There
> are large signs in the library which say "YOU CAN USE YOUR
> WIRELESS CARD HERE!", which point to the space of a row of desks.
> On some levels, it'll actually encompass a half-decent area of
> desks (like about 15m x 15m), while on others, it'll only work
> (literally) on about two or three desks closely chained together.
> 
> I probably wouldn't have an issue if it actually worked over 30%
> of the time.  [rant rant rant]

Oh, I should clarify that I'm talking about the UNSW library
wireless system here, which is a POS.  (Sipping latte on the lawn
while hacking on laptop -- hahaha!  Good luck.)

The CSE wireless system, on the other hand, is excellent, and the
range even extends outside the main K17 building to a small lawn.
Have fun trying to read your laptop TFT screen if you're outside
in the blazing sunlight, though.


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