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mostly at the university, where wired connection to the network is not available.
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Madwifi here at home
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100% of the time - if I wasn't wireless, I wouldn't be online. Currently wlan-ng with a USB dongle.
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No wireless here.
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I have 4 computers, 3 directly connected and 1 uses wireless(my laptop) all using arch and working fine
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Nope. I did once, but then the wireless stuff on the crappy Belkin router just gave out, no warning at all.
(So far I've had nought but trouble from Belkin...)
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well this is a desktop so no..
i think you should rephrase the question to whether people use wireless on portable computers.. cause most desktop users dont need wireless
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2 laptops that use wireless
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Not currently, I can't decide how best to secure one. In any case I think a radius server would be a bit over the top. I'm thinking maybe put a wireless card in my server and just have dhcpd and vpn servers listening on that interface.
I use wireless at Uni though.
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Hell yeah!
I have the Intel ipw2200 chipset which I think helps a lot.
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well this is a desktop so no..
i think you should rephrase the question to whether people use wireless on portable computers.. cause most desktop users dont need wireless
you'd be surprised. my friend can't wire up his house because his house is quite old and offers no place for them to lay wires - short of running them up the staircase and looking entirely hideous. so he uses wireless.
my desktop runs wireless because it's at the end of a long hallway, and we already had wireless because of the various laptops in the house, easier again than running unsightly wires up the hallway, or forking out to get some cabling added. the cost of the cable and time even if I did it myself would be more than the wireless card in this computer.
So there's plenty of economic, and practical reasons to use wireless for desktops/non portable computers. this house has 5 active computers, all bar 1 have wireless cards, and 3 run off the wireless network - my desktop has since moved to the same room as the router. 2 run linux, my desktop and my laptop.
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no wifi here too.
2 reason, security and electromagnetic wave(read my sig).
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Would have been interesting to see more options like:
(1) I use wireless & WPA
(2) I use wireless but not WPA
(3) I use wireless but can't get WPA to work
(4) I'd like to use wireless but can't get it to work
(5) I Don't use wireless
I'm at (3)
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I'm using wifi at home. Broadcom card with ndiswrapper drivers. Still waiting for kernel 2.6.17 for native drivers.
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Using ipw2200 without any troubles on my laptop at home
Haven't been here in a while. Still rocking Arch.
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At home I'm using my laptop's ipw2200 card and linksys wrt54gs wireless router with dd-wrt v23 SP1 standard firmware (which is based on embedded linux BTW).
I'm also using WPA2-PSK with AES (ccmp) encryption + MAC address filtering + DHCP forwarder on the router.
And all of this is running in G only mode usually 56 Mbps (real transfer is ~3Mbps).
Ocasionally I'm switching to win xp and cable network when I want to play bzflag because the connection is more stable (no lost udp packets) and windows i915 driver is a lot faster :-(
EDIT: in wpa2 mode it takes some time during the boot to setup up everything (sometimes 20-30 s) and I had to increase the wpa timeout in netcfg script.
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laptop: wireless. ndiswrapper (silly broadcom)
desktop machines: ethernet via a wireless bridge
so, in a way, yes on both accounts
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There is no wireless in my home cause there are only two desktop machines.
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wireless! i wouldn't manage without it.
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Wireless, with driverloader and wifi-radar.
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i only use wireless if i can't use a cable for some really good reason. so you see, i prefer a cable but use wireless sometimes.
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I can only use wireless on my desktop due to a problem with the internal wiring in my house!
This makes doing a fresh install very difficult if wireless software is not included in the distro (hint hint).
I use windows rt2500 driver with ndiswrapper. I can't get the linux rt2500 drivers to work... they install ok but lock up the PC as soon as I try to start network on them
Microsoft stole my computer, Linux gave it back.
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driverloader
You pay for that? Does ndiswrapper not work?
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