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| Time: 10:18 EST/15:18 GMT | News Source: ZDNet | Posted By: Robert Stein | ||
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THE FIRST QUESTION you need to ask yourself is whether you need the added speed 802.11g offers. Most people and even most small businesses don't. Here's why: The gating factor on your Internet access speed isn't your wireless network. It's your DSL or cable modem, which typically runs no faster than 6Mbps and probably a lot less. So data will be bouncing around your home or office at 54Mbps and then be choked by your Internet connection. Because of this, hardly anyone actually needs 802.11g today. | ||
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| #1 By 16302 (64.201.211.161) at 9/22/2003 12:05:21 PM |
| The author suffers from the "640KB of RAM is more than you would ever need" syndrome. My goodness! I personally wish wireless speeds were able to match wired speeds and do it reliably accross a longer distance. The one thing that the author does not recognize is that not every packet is destined for the internet. Many home and especially small business networks have a lot more file sharing, internal email, database, multimedia, gaming, and other network bandwidth-requiring applications. |
| #2 By 10022 (24.169.193.163) at 9/22/2003 5:46:36 PM |
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and of course you wouldnt need 11g if you were using some kind of proxy system either??
because then of course you would only be limited by your INTERNAL network speed so you would want to use 10Mbit connections for every thing even if 100 Mb was included on the same hubs (you also dont want to use switches becasue they are better and faster) and NICs already in use. what you really need is dial up in a case like this so that.... (you stay on AOL where you belong- behind thier proxy servers) (wow it is easy to just make stuff up!) |
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