802.11g... It's Official

JoeBuck writes "This article in CommsDesign reports that the IEEE has officially approved the IEEE 802.11g standard, as well as another standard (802.15.3) for shorter-range, very-low-power operation. Two other standards designed to improve compatibility between different vendors' access points were also approved."

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Re:Nothing came of the decreased bandwidth proposa

[An Anonymous Coward]

It was my understanding that the 10-20 Mbps number we were hearing was actual throughput, not theoretical maximum. The maximum never changed from 54 Mbps, but when you throw in protocol and error correction overhead, the number actually drops somewhere between 10-20. Just like 802.11b claims 11 Mbps, but the actual throughput is closer to 4-5 Mbps.