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WiFi Woes With .11g
Herby Werby writes "The Register has an article on the incompatibility between .11g and .11b across differing unnamed vendors due to premature roll-outs. The part which really hurts is the suggestion that if there's a .11b participant to your .11g network then either it gets ignored or the network reverts to .11b status. Anyone tried this yet with their new Powermacs?" As the article points out, this is most likely due to the fact that .11g hasn't really even been set as a *standard* yet, so incompatibility is to be expected. I just hope vendors get really good with flash updates.
thats how long my backorder on the 17" powerbook is. My concern with 802.11g is that it seems extremely distance limited, my dlink 614+ can push 22mbit over 2.4ghz, but it sucks because you need to be right next to the damn thing to get that much throughput. I'd rather have 11mbit and actually be able to get some distance with it.
...as the register makes it sound ? Obviously different standards will have at least some compatibility issues that need to be resolved, but it seems that the registers depicts it as a huge problem
At least until all the standards are sorted out Im going to stick with 802.11b. I know its not exactly blasteringly fast, but manily I just like to surf on my laptop or pda its certainly faster than any internet connection I have access to.
Added to the most of the sites (not websites real places!) have 11b wireless. Personally until 11g or some other backwards compatible solution proliferates I would rather be compatable than quick.
I have a wired + wireless router (one of the many little ones that Walmart / CompUSA / your local Lucky Dragon sell), and it's great, works with very little coaxing.
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.11g which would make it worth buying -- for household use, that is -- over a ridiculously cheap 801.11b router? I guess at a frathouse (or a co-op), it would make more sense ...
However, it also offers throughput on both the wired and unwired sides which is far greater than the bandwidth of my cable modem. For person-to-person communication (IRCing with your tenant in the basement, or even using VoIP if you're into that sort of thing) or moderate file exchanging, 11b is *plenty* until you get pretty far apart.
How often do you do large file transfers wirelessly so that you'd get a big benefit out of 11g? For some people that answer is going to be "All the time, thank you!" but for most residential wireless users, I think the answer is going to be "Large file transfers
Are there really compelling advantages to
timothy
jrnl: http://tinyurl.com/c2l8yr / foes: http://tinyurl.com/ckjno5
I realize there is a lot of excitement about the OFDM and increased bandwidth 802.11g is going to bring to the ISM band, but don't hold your breath waiting for your local WISP to roll it in your area.
http://www.apertonet.com is very active in 802.16, they've got a $2k/channel head end unit, and $1k subscriber units. Its too expensive for resi but it *works* for business - both cost wise and radio wise, which is something I'll never claim about 802.11b. I've got Cisco 802.11b gear in five counties and base on what I've seen from Aperto the only place 802.11b will survive is in very cost sensitive rural areas.
I am very easy to get along with, but I don't have time to waste being nice to people who are being stupid. -Theo
I have a Powerbook G4 Ti 550Mhz and an IBM Thinkpad T21.
I have an airport extreme wireless hub.
I have an Airport card in the Powermac. It works fine with the Airport Extreme (as one would expect).
I have an old 'IBM High Rate Wireless LAN' card which as I understand is a 40bit WEP compatible 802.11b card. It works fine.
So i bought a Linksys 802.11g card for my Thinkpad so I could at least use 128Bit WEP. I plug it in, and it don't work at all. It connects to the base station, but won't get an IP address. If you hard code an IP address it doesn't work either, but it sees the base station.
Of course I've worked on this for about 20 min, so I'm not finished yet. Not real thrilled with the 'ease of use' crap with Windows 200, wish it'd give more detail other than the pretty graphics.
As a rock-in-roll Physicist once said, No matter where you go, there you are.
I've had a Siemens Gigaset phone system (2.4GHz) at home since before wireless really took off. Seeing as there are at least four wireless networks that I know of within 50 feet of where I live, I'm beginning to get quite annoyed with the interference. It's bad enough that I have to share the spectrum with leaky microwave ovens (2.45GHz). Now would all please show some respect and use wireless technology in a different spectrum, such as 802.11a?
Thank you.
Well, let's start with this statement:
"Now, we hear of incompatibility problems between rival 11g products - discovered in "secret" testing sessions"
Secret???? Buffalo Tech and a whole slew of corporations are using the same testing labs to ensure compatibility. Both 80211planet and unstrung had information about this. It's a "secret" only to stupid journalists who don't do the minimum gruntwork.
"How does the IEEE being on schedule relate to them being "forced" into a choice?"
because it directly says that the IEEE was forced to make a decision on the standard because of vendor pressure, when in fact the IEEE is working directly on schedule on a roadmap set up 14 months ago. There's been absolutely no change in the 11g roadmap, and the IEEE is not being forced into ANYTHING.
I think "Wireless" should be a topic on slashdot.
There is so much past news and news yet to come on this topic. It makes sense to document and archive it distinctly.
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