[ale] wireless lan that's not wifi?

[Hogg, Russell E.]

Some of the big vendors had wireless LAN stuff as previously mentioned.
It just didn't fit a standard.

SYMBOL is what I worked with in warehouses before the standards were set.
Hand held DOS terminals that worked via a series of BATCH menus.
They called their technology "Spring-Net" if memory serves..  They
eventually firmware upgraded to plain Jane 802.11.

Proxim had their own proprietary standard as well I'm sure..






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-----Original Message-----
From: Matt Smith [mailto:msmith at risklabs.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, August 25, 2004 10:21 AM
To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
Subject: RE: [ale] wireless lan that's not wifi?


He's probably talking about plain-old 802.11 (note, no letter)

It's been around for quite a while - long before anyone came up with the
wi-fi lingo.

I've got a couple of 900MHz ISA cards from that era.. never got them to do
much other than talk across a room.


--Matt


-----Original Message-----
From: Geoffrey [mailto:esoteric at 3times25.net] 
Sent: Wednesday, August 25, 2004 6:43 AM
To: ALE
Subject: [ale] wireless lan that's not wifi?


So I'm talking to this guy yesterday and he tells me there's this 
wireless technology out there that can be used for networking and he 
refers to it as 'wireless lan.'  Says it's not wifi and actually has 
been around longer than wifi.  Can't be bluetooth.  So folks, anyone 
know what this magical, mysterious technology is?

-- 
Until later, Geoffrey       Registered Linux User #108567
                             AT&T Certified UNIX System Programmer - 1995
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