Re: Slightly OT - Wireless

Dave Michelson <[email protected]> Sun, 10 Aug 2003 21:31:54 -0700

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S. Anderson wrote:
> 
> I wouldnt buy 802.11b it is much to slow, If you have a lan and you want to
>  transfer a big file 80kB/sec just doesnt cut it.

On a good connection, IEEE 802.11b should yield a raw data rate of 11 Mb/s and
useful throughput of almost 6 Mb/s.

If your airlink is so bad that you're only getting ~700 kb/s, you have other
problems to sort about.

Question to the group:

What does the power consumption of the new 802.11g cards look like.  802.11b
cards tend to shorten battery life considerably.  Are the 11g cards, with
their DSP engines for OFDM, appreciably worse?

-- 
Dave Michelson
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