[Pc_Support] Low-cost, but solid: TRENDnet TEW-610APB (AP), TEW-441PC (CardBus), TEW-443PI (PCI)

[Damien McKenna]

Bryan J. Smith wrote:
> Wrestling with wireless for the last month, sometimes cheaper is not so
> bad -- as long as you find the right products:  

As soon as we get a chance I'm going to pick one up for general use at
home, I'm sick of being stuck with WEP 'cause my card sucketh verily.

One question, is WPA or 11g in any way CPU-bound, or does all the
hooplah actually happen in hardware?  I've just noticed that if our
existing Linksys 11b WEP-only card in a P3/500 laptop running
Windows2000 looses the connection the CPU gets eaten up quite thoroughly
until it finds it again - at that point I tend to pop out the card
rather than deal with a machine running at half speed.

Thanks for the tip.

-- 
Damien McKenna, husband, father, geek.
damien at mc-kenna.com - http://www.mc-kenna.com/