Farallon Speeds Up SkyLine Wireless Card to 11 Mbps

"Farallon Communications, Inc., announced their SkyLINE 11Mb Wireless PC Card for portable computers is now shipping. SkyLINE provides both Macintosh PowerBook and PC notebook users access to network resources such as file servers, email, printers and the Internet without the hassle of wires. The SkyLINE 11Mb Wireless PC Card is based on the IEEE 802.11b Direct Sequence Spread Spectrum standard and will interoperate on the same wireless network along with other 802.11 DSSS solutions. SkyLINE 11Mb comes with support for 40-bit WEP encryption and enhanced Control Panels for simplified configuration and management. SkyLINE is compatible with wireless solutions from vendors such as Apple, Lucent and Nokia. The US estimated street price is $199.00 and SkyLINE 2Mb upgrade price is $159.00."