Re: Slightly OT - Wireless

On Sun, Aug 10, 2003 at 09:31:54PM -0700, Dave Michelson wrote:
> 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.
> 

I wipped out my old 11b card to test it out. I can acually get 243.83
KiloBytes per sec out of it. my 11g card can get 2.5 megaBytes/s.

Mabey my 11b rate is so slow because im using a 11g AP?

> 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?

I'll have to test it out for you, can you recommend a reliable way to
test it?

cya,
sa