Thorsten Froehlich wrote:
> A ping is not a reliable way to check network reliability. 
that may be true, but the network can't be stable if even a ping can't 
get through for a lot of the time...

> Some of those noname cards cannot keep a network up even if they sit next to
> each other!  With brand name hardware it will work just fine and signals
> pass at least through two 18 cm reinforced concrete floors and three 25 cm
> brick walls (my home setup).  Or work 70 m away from your home.  At least
> they did for me in the past four years.  And in many different locations and
> setups it also works reliably.  You really need reliable hardware, that is
> all ;-)
i think d-link isn't such a noname brand ;) and there shouldn't be any 
incompatibilities between products of one brand which were designed to 
be used together, as the whole wlan-network is based on d-link hardware.
the only thing i can think of as a roblem, except for the walls would be 
  the OS used on the server machine. currently i'm using win2k pro sp4, 
but it may be too hard for windoze to handle 3 network interfaces at the 
same time (1 wlan, 1 lan, 1 internet) i really would like to use linux 
for server purposes, but i'm not familiar enough with it to ensure 100% 
uptime, and as my father uses the server for his company, this is not 
acceptable :( (he has no problems BTW with the network, as he is 
connected via lan...)

bye,
     Marc

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