Re: [NTLK] Wavelan [Was: Re: $50.00 wireless Internet for Newton.]

From: Stainless Steel Rat (ratinox_at_peorth.gweep.net)
Date: Tue Sep 25 2001 - 14:44:48 EDT


* Hubertus <hubertus_at_mac.com> on Tue, 25 Sep 2001
| I am speaking of WLANs. To login at the access point you have
| to authenticate with pppoe. Behind the access point might be a
| router, a firewall etc.

Oh. You are roaming. What the F! are they doing PPPoE over 802.11b?
PPPoE is dumb to begin with, but PPPoE over 802.11b is rock-stupid, because
it *ISN'T* peer-to-peer.

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