got my wireless card now questions

[agami]

How much do you know about your Wireless LAN?
Is your wireless network secured with WEP or WPA?
Is your wireless network setup to support 802.11b devices?

Amigas don't have much bandwidth so your network, wireless or otherwise will pretty much be limited to around 10Mbps. Adding WEP encryption will slow it down some more.

There are also drawbacks to having an 802.11b (11Mbps) device on your router as with most chipsets/firmware the entire wireless (2.4GHz) network slows down to accommodate the older protocol.

What I did is I bought an old 802.11g/b wireless router on eBay and set it to 802.11b mode only. I did not use WEP or any type of security as it is a bit of a hit & miss with Amiga OS 3.x software. I secured it using MAC address access list which will only allow the network devices I enter.

Unfortunately, networking on the Amiga has never been easy, mostly because network technology keeps moving forward and the Amiga doesn't.

But once you set it up you'll never need to deal with it again. At least until the hardware fails.

[agami]

Focusing only on the SSID and passphrase is the 'Little Picture'.
The Big Picture is AAACHIPSET's entire network and its overall compatibility with the networking inept Amiga computer.

[agami]

i beg to differ, i can set up any network with any compatible card on the amiga is less than 5 minutes in most cases-especially with miamidx. The problem is people usually don't get compatible hardware,the right drivers,or fix the card reset bugs etc....

There's more to it than just that. I have worked in networking and I have setup all manner of networks on pretty much every type of system. Despite people's laziness and the lack of compatible hardware, the Amiga is one of the least network friendly systems still in use. No doubt due in large part to development halting in 1993. I applaud all of the 3rd party efforts that have been made since then to help Amigans get on-line, but the proverbial wheel is spinning much too fast for these valiant efforts.