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Article #69Re: Don't surrender your Antenna Connector
From: Andrew Maxwell
Date: Sat, 16 Dec 2000 01:31
Date: Sat, 16 Dec 2000 01:31
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> If someone offers to buy _your_ Mac's antenna connector, politely refuse > and say that if there's a wireless WAN going up in your area, you want > to be a part of it. Also that connector is useless unless you are trying to connect to other Apple Airport systems. Most other airport devices I have seen use a different connector (Mini N type?). All of these so called jockeys are probably running Linux or PC systems with most ISA/PCI cards using a different antenna connector on the back again? (either a BNC - ugh , or low end microwave connectors. I don't know where all this nonsense started but it sounds like crap to me. As I say, I am literally drowning in these connectors. Any mid tech radio/microwave communications place carries them and they cost nothing. ($5 for cheapo ones, $25 for mid level). A
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