Speaking of wireless

[Tom Buskey]

"Kenneth E. Lussier" said:
>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.

Most of the APs have a web interface.  Some also do SNMP.

>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??

11b is 11mb at 2.4 GHz.  Same as many cordless phones.  When I get a
phone call, sometimes I have to hit channel on the phone to get my
network connection running.  If I could set the phone to use just one
channel, they wouldn't interfere. Microwave ovens can interfere too, but
I haven't had that issue.  It's been out for awhile so lots of people
have hacked on it.  Some airports/ coffee shops/neighborhoods have set
up WLANs for people to use.  Some for free.

11a is 54mb at 5 GHz.  Half the distance, newer so people haven't 
played with it as much, newer so it's more expensive.  Since it's a 
different frequency, your phone won't interfere.

11g is 'the next standard' which I don't know much about :-X
>
>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", 802.11
>b
>> is the established standard, and 802.11g will be backwards compatible with i
>t.
>> 
>> 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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