Speaking of wireless

[Kenneth E. Lussier]

I'm not really worried about the bandwidth issue at the moment. This is
all for my home network, which is connected to a 768/768 DSL line.
11Mbits/sec is plenty. Besides, I only have a 10Mbit hub for the wired
systems. I'm also not overly concerned about the PC, since it is my
wifes and she runs Windows (for now, but I'm working on that ;-), and I
would assume that most of the wireless stuff is geared toward Windows. I
just don't want to go out and get a wireless hub, a PCI card, and a
PCMCIA card, only to find out that the cards don't work with that
particular hub, or that the pc card won't work under Linux. 

But, since Sean and Maddog brought it up, what is the difference between
802.11a and 802.11b. And why did they go from b to g? What happened to
c,d,e, and f??

C-Ya,
Kenny
 
On Tue, 2002-08-27 at 21:20, Jon Hall wrote:
> 
> cinnur at attbi.com said:
> > You may want to check out their units doing 802.11a, which would give
> > you a better choice of frequencies, and I also think bandwidth.  
> 
> I would not advise many people at this time to go 802.11a, since 802.11g is right
> around the corner.  While 802.11a is faster, with "more frequencies", 802.11b
> is the established standard, and 802.11g will be backwards compatible with it.
> 
> There are "second generation" 802.11b cards that give 22 Mbits/sec and are
> compatible with 802.11b systems that exist right now.
> 
> My $0.02
> 
> md
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