Going wireless...

[chimera]

I need to give several computers access to my cable modem. I've been looking around and that wireless Linksys 4 port router/switch looks pretty good. Anybody have any experience with these? Are there better alternatives? Anything cheaper out there?

[bdg1983]

In the past, I've seen some links posted on wireless and Linux. Can't remember them, but they have been posted here.

Ahhh. I think sourceforge.net has a projects going on wireless. As long as the wireless ethernet card works, then everything else should.

Still a little pricey for me. I'll stick to tripping over my home network cables until the prices come down. Actually got them going through walls and along baseboards.

[miker]

not really an issue for internet access, but remember that max bandwidth of wireless protocol in ideal conditions is shared 11Mbps -- compare this with current 100Mbps over cat5 cable, and the (hopefully) soon to be announced 1Gbps over cat5 -- life in wires yet, certainly for shifting my video files between boxes!