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."

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I didn't read the article

[Anonymous Coward]

so I got the first post.

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"The Mouse That Squeaked" Computerworld award

[Miguel de Icaza]

i stopped reading computerworld after this article even if it was a joke i am not laughing. bad journalism:

"Finally, Ximian Inc. walks away with "The Mouse That Squeaked" award for continuing to reproduce the .Net development framework as an open-source project called Mono. The value of Mono eludes me, but perhaps there's a secret contingent of open-source programmers itching to write code in Visual Basic .Net.

Nevertheless, only delusions of grandeur could account for the notion that Microsoft won't bankrupt Ximian and stop the project on claims of patent violations the moment Mono poses a threat."

Re:"The Mouse That Squeaked" Computerworld award

[cioxx]

This article was great. It should have been enclosed in visible tags to help you understand that it was a joke.

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2000-08-12: first known occurance on /. Apparently it's being appended. At least it's an AC, not a karma troll.

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