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[dacaw]

I had an Orinoco aka Wavelan aka Lucent, recently Proxim Access Point (AP1000) more years ago than I can recall - at least 4 - in my home. It failed last week and it turned out to be the power supply which is modular but built into the frame.

The date of manufacture on the power supply is 5-1-1999. There's no obvious date on the logic unit.

The AP1000 wasn't the first Wavelan manufactured AP.

It probably cost $1500 new, I replaced it with a $49.95 Linksys WRT54G.

I still use the original Wavelan cards. These units were in common usage when Centrino came out. The .bin files in the AP manager (not an early version) are dated 12/99.

While consumers may have caught onto WiFi about the same time as Centrino I believe any claims by Intel that they "invented" it are as credible as claims that Al Gore did likewise for the Internet and probably do more harm than good to the corporate image with corporate buyers.