Apple Clarifies 802.11g Controversy

Wireless Spider writes "A couple of days ago there was a controversy over the 802.11g data rates and supposed changes in IEEE specification. Apple has clarified this controversy, stating that nothing has changed in the spec. It seems the article from Computerworld was somewhat misleading. Quote from an Apple Vice President: "802.11g is still a 54Mbit/sec standard," Bell told MacCentral. "802.11b is 11Mbit/sec, but your actual throughput is somewhere between 4 and 5-1/2Mbit/sec. The number that's quoted is the data rate that's used between the radios (raw data rate, which includes the protocols etc.)" After reading this article featured on Macworld, 802.11g transfer rate controversy meaningless, says Apple, it seems clear that the people at Computerworld didn't do their homework for the article featured on May 22. Also, there seems to be a lot of politics between 802.11g and a supporters, and that every article posted on the Internet about this subject might not be true, or could be politically motivated."

Comments

Re:"The Mouse That Squeaked" Computerworld award

[hackus]

Yeah well,

If you dumb asses spent as much time on all of Gnomes problems with its adjunct crappy Window API that is organized specifically so that applications WILL EVER LOOK USEABLE FOR THE AVERAGE PERSON, as you spend on coding on GO NOWHERE MONO so that Microsoft can goad you into building on a framework that is wholly controlled by them...

I might actually have a decent GNOME desktop by now...

BUT ...

NNnnnnnnnnnnnnnnooooooooooooooooooo.

Thank GOD we have KDE.

-Hack