[ale] significance of -> 802.11/a/b/g connectivity

[Stephen Benjamin]

In terms of Linux support, 802.11b is supported wonderfully for most (all?)
cards nowadays.  g and a support is more experimental, and the bulk of your
problems are going to come from the newer stuff.  My Cisco Aeronet PCMCIA
card still works better range-wise than any other card I've ever had.

Although, modern distros I guess are better about doing stuff for you.  I
only recently upgraded to g, and I ended up putting Ubuntu on my laptop (had
Gentoo before).  802.11g worked out of the box as did most everything
else...installing gentoo was a 4-day project of compiling/patching/etc.



2008/9/2 Sean McNealy <sean.mcnealy at gmail.com>

> Though if you're only getting b to save money, you may be getting older,
> outdated hardware that contains bugs that have been since fixed or it just
> might not be working like new anymore (or could have been second-rate to
> begin with and that's why nobody bought it years ago when it was new).
>
> I get the b/g stuff even if it's just for the b protocol.  You get what you
> pay for.
>
> -Sean
>
>
> On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 11:19 AM, Jim Popovitch <yahoo at jimpop.com> wrote:
>
>> 2008/9/2 Stephen Benjamin <skbenja at gmail.com>:
>> > 802.11b and g both run around the 2.4GHz radio spectrum, b is limited to
>> > speeds of up to 11mbps whereas G can get up to 54mbps.  Lower
>> frequencies
>> > can penetrate walls better and travel further.  a is also 54mbps but
>> runs at
>> > 5GHz.
>> >
>> > b is rare nowadays, with g being the most common.  a is rare, but
>> there's a
>> > few random 802.11a access points out there.
>>
>> I run nothing but b, 90% of the time.   g is great in perfect worlds,
>> but b is much more likely to work across varied hardware and software
>> drivers.
>>
>> -Jim P.
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