Re: New guy question

This is one of the big reasons that I'm a fan of 802.11a. It's lack of
backward compatibility is actually a feature in my mind. a/b/g cards are
what I generally recommend for someone interested in high speed
connectivity, particularly in downtown Chicago with an 802.11a access point
if the range is not an issue. Usually range isn't an issue for residential
installations. (I can connect to 4 different 802.11b networks from my
condo.)

Your neighbor's 802.11b set up shouldn't decrease speed on your g network
very much, but his/her clients will periodically be sending SSID probe
request frames, which will generate a 11Mb/s response every second or two,
so, yeah, you're probably losing a percent or two of speed to the neighbor's
clients.


Yay for 5GHz...
James Fraser
Jamie@xxxxxxxxxxxxx

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[mailto:AUDIOTRON@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Michael Scott
Sent: Tuesday, March 16, 2004 4:48 PM
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Subject: Re: [AT] New guy question

Quoting "Jay A. Kreibich" <jak@xxxxxxxx>:

>   Wireless connections have a huge amount of overhead and are
>   inherently half-duplex since they are all-- literally-- broadcast
>   traffic.  802.11g also suffers from greatly degraded performance in
>   the presence of even a single 802.11b client

Wow! I hadn't heard that.  What happens if I have an 11g setup and my
neighbor has an 11b?  I can't exactly tell them to turn it off.

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- Mike Scott
- mscott@xxxxxxxxxxxxx

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