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

[Courtney Thomas]

Stephen,

Thanks for your reply and ....what's the maximum range of your Cisco Aeronet PCMCIA, please ?

How much trouble is it to get it going ?    :-)

Cordially,
Courtney
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Stephen Benjamin 
  To: ale at ale.org 
  Sent: Tuesday, September 02, 2008 2:27 PM
  Subject: Re: [ale] significance of -> 802.11/a/b/g connectivity


  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    Though if you're only getting b to save money, you may be getting older, outdated hardware that contains bugs that have been since fixed or it just might not be working like new anymore (or could have been second-rate to begin with and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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