[ale] Feedback on Wireless Standards

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Thu Mar 27 10:12:10 EST 2003


On Thu, Mar 27, 2003 at 10:09:45AM -0500, Kilroy, Chris wrote:
> A: (+) faster and not as prone to interference
>    (-) shorter range, more expensive
 
(-)  No adapters supported with Linux drivers
(+)  many, many nn-overlapping ccahannels

> B:  (+) cheapest, decent range
>    (-) prone to interference

(+)  Many adapters well-supported under Linux

> G:  (+) supposed to combine the best of both of the above
>    (-)  standard not agreed upon yet, expensive.

(-)  No adapters supported with Linux drivers
(-)  With any 802.11b devices throughput drops dramatically.

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