where to buy an Orinoco GOLD classic card

peterk19

Does any body know of a good online supplier of these cards other than ebay?

irlrobins

Afaik they are not made anymore so I think you'd be limited to the second hand market.

peterk19

yea i know but theres a lot of resellers around from what ive seen but most of them use paypal and sell through ebay

irlrobins

Have you a fear of ebay and paypal?

peterk19

yes

irlrobins

Don't be. As long as you use some common sense and only go for established sellers with good feedback from users that have been around a while you'll be ok. And if there is a problem paypal has methods of getting ur money back.

If in doubt post some of the ads on the Online Auction forum and ask people for their opinion on whether it looks dodge or not.

NutJob

I got mine on ebay theres many selleres out there with good reps selling them.

Was safe, timely and i still have my credit cards in one piece

JohnnieM

Can you explain what this card does? i have some pic gold cards will they do the same thing..supposed to be for sim cloning,,,

irlrobins

It's a wireless (802.11b) card.

NutJob

the gold does g aswell. Hint the silver cards can be upgraded to by reflashing:D

Capt'n Midnight

It's a wireless (802.11b) card. With an external antenna connector.

With a decent MMDS dish or specialised antenna at each end you can get a 11Mbps link over 8Km. With faster cards you may not be able to simply because they won't accomodate signals that take longer because they have further to go ( radio waves don't travel instantly )

If it has a PCMCIA slot chances are you can get drivers for it for this card.

Blaster99

The special thing with the Proxim Orinoco Gold Classic's is that they have a very good radio which is why they're popular with the WAN folks. And it's supported by Linux.

bushy...

Yip, they have a sensitive radio ,some other cards seem to have been fitted with cotton wool instead of electronicky stuff they are so deaf.
What made them nice was you could upload firmware to the cards RAM as they were booting, allowing them to become an AP. So you now had a linux/bsd powered AP with a sensitive radio ( the AP has to 'see' the other side too).
Proper APs ( some of which featured the same card embedded) were scarce and expensive and others wouldn't work reliably over distance or at all.

SouperComputer

NutJob wrote:

the gold does g aswell. Hint the silver cards can be upgraded to by reflashing:D

Hmm wonder if this would work as an Airport Extreme with OS X?

Capt'n Midnight

SouperComputer wrote:

Hmm wonder if this would work as an Airport Extreme with OS X?

no idea
but the first case of alchemy was in the original Airport

bushy...

I don't think the gold cards did G-mode

irlrobins

bushy... wrote:

I don't think the gold cards did G-mode

Yea I was a bit dubious about NutJobs claim. I know you can go from silver to gold as I have one of those cards, but it's still only b type.

niallb

NutJob wrote:

the gold does g aswell. Hint the silver cards can be upgraded to by reflashing:D

No it doesn't.

They can indeed be upgraded (inconveniently), but the upgrade is
to give you 128 bit encryption. The silver only handled 64bit, which
means it can't connect to many modern APs.
The radio is still an 802.11b radio - 11Mb/s. Can't upgrade that in software.

NiallB

SouperComputer

turns out the Airport Extreme is a broadcom chipset, so no go there.

NutJob

niallb wrote:

No it doesn't.

They can indeed be upgraded (inconveniently), but the upgrade is
to give you 128 bit encryption. The silver only handled 64bit, which
means it can't connect to many modern APs.
The radio is still an 802.11b radio - 11Mb/s. Can't upgrade that in software.

NiallB

Stand corrected thanks

bushy...

SouperComputer wrote:

Hmm wonder if this would work as an Airport Extreme with OS X?

what were you thinking of putting together ?