Cisco aquired Aironet, a manufacturer of wireless LAN products:
The older CiscoAironet340 (AIR-AP340) series Tx power is fixed at 30 mW.
The newer CiscoAironet350 (AIR-AP350) series can autorange its Tx power up to 100 mW, or have it set by software.
The 340 & 350 has no WEP.I have ap4800a (otherwise known as the 340) and it does 128 wep just fine with firmware version 8.80 The 341 & 351 has 40 bit WEP. The 342 & 352 has 128 bit WEP.
The CiscoAironet340 series has been End of Lifed.
A sales person told me the European 350 series was limited to 50 mW, the US version could be set to 100 mW through software. Can anyone confirm this? YES!! (EricSchmiedl).
http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/cc/pd/witc/ao350ap/
as far as we can tell, there are 4 (possibly more) types of aironet cards.. client cards and AP cards.
They are sold in a variety of ways.
http://www.cisco.com/univercd/cc/td/doc/product/wireless/
PCMCIA Cards
Client only. diversity antenna is built into board. CiscoPictures
- There is also a card with two external connectors rather than built-in antenna.
PCI Cards.
PCMCIA->PCI card that contains an AP card. one antenna jack is wired to a TNC adaptor (for use with external antennas)
old Aironet turbo branded cards broadcast at 100mw
Access Point.
- embedded device with AP card. AP software.
CiscoAironet1300AP
Bridge
- embedded device with AP card. AP software and Bridge software. one antenna jack is wired to a TNC adaptor (for use with external antennas)
Anybody know about the Aironet 4500? Is it 11mb?
-The old Aironet 4500 series is a 2mb family of cards. I'm not sure if they ever came in PCI models or if they manufactured any 4500 Access Points or Bridges as the only ones I have ever seen are either PC Card models without the integrated antenna or ISA. They are 100mw and very hard to find these days, even on Ebay.
- Aironet 4800 seems to be a first shot at 802.11. The versions of the cards without "b" at the end are 100 mW. The "b" edition are only 30 mW. I don't know which are "802.11b" cards... but I can guess... Both "b" and non-b cards can to 11mbit.
- I've got a 4800A. It does 11Mb 802.11b. I've heard it can only do WEP at 2Mb, while the 4800b can to WEP at 11Mb/s.
- New Cisco Aironet AIR-PCI350 _do_ 100 mW indeed as I just tested it. Do not think you can buy the AIR-PCI350 (or 340) and pull the LMC-3?0 card and use it in a PCMCIA slot -WILL NOT WORK as Cisco modified the boot block to work with the PCI adapter. (12-16-01, lonewf@hotmail.com)
HELP Trying to add external antenna to AIR-PCM340. Has anyone pulled this off. Notes/ideas needed! jemele@colevalley.com Using as reference: http://kevlar.burdell.org/~will/antenna/
Perhaps this might help you: http://www.mrx.com.au/wireless/AironetModifications.htm
