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  Life After AirPort -- New Wireless Base Stations
Subject:   SMC bridges appletalk
Date:   2001-08-18 01:58:14
From:   kmickey
I was pleasantly surprised to find out that the SMC bridges appletalk, allowing all the wireless clients to see the wired clients (and printer) and all the wired clients to see the wireless ones.


My only previous with 802.11b experience has been at my parents where my brother and I use my father's iMac as a basestation when we visit. In that case the appletalk is either wireless or wired.... it's impossible to print to his (localtalk/ethernet bridge) laserwriter from a wireless connection if the iMac is the basestation.


I love my SMC - only complaint is the range seems weak, but I suspect it's a function of the antennas in my TiBook more than the basestation. I did some very rudimentary range comparisons with my old ibook and the ibook always had a higher signal strength.


KM