[committee] 45 minute warning: This Week's Committee Meeting Agenda

[Matt Johnston]

On Tue, Jun 15, 2004 at 01:09:45PM +0800, Matt Johnston wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 15, 2004 at 01:03:22PM +0800, James Cox wrote:
> > On Tue, 15 Jun 2004, Davyd Madeley wrote:
> > 
> > > On Tue, 2004-06-15 at 12:15 +0800, committee at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au wrote:
> > > > coxy : airport express for UCC
> > >
> > > AFAIK, you can't buy one yet. If you can buy one, I think it wouldn't
> > > take too long to reverse the protocol and the way it works, and then UCC
> > > doesn't need one ;) However, yes, I would like to get my hands on one.
> > 
> > It's still a decently priced 11g AP (especially if we imported it). The
> > protocol is just a sweetener, baseless assumptions about the protocol are
> > a moot point.
> 
> Except it's only an AP talking to DSL modems, which takes the shine off it
> a bit. At least that's the gist I've got.

Actually, if we were to set up a PPPOE server on madako/flying/etc,
pretending to be a DSL modem, it might be doable. Though would be sick and
twisted. I guess Apple don't want to kill the Airport Extreme market too
much, will be interesting to see if they eventually release an
Express-form-factor version with full bridging. 

Do hotels really have DSL modem ports in their rooms (OK, some do as they
CBF running cat5), or do they mostly just do normal ethernet?

Matt