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  • From: "Tony Spencer" <tony AT tonyspencer.com>
  • To: "'Internetworkers: http://www.ibiblio.org/internetworkers/'" <internetworkers AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: RE: [internetworkers] 802-11b v. 802-11g?
  • Date: Sat, 15 Jan 2005 23:45:40 -0500

Isn't there a serious degradation in range when you upgrade to g? This is
the only reason I have stuck with b.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tom Boucher [mailto:trekkie AT nomorestars.com]
> Sent: Saturday, January 15, 2005 4:41 PM
> To: Internetworkers: http://www.ibiblio.org/internetworkers/
> Subject: Re: [internetworkers] 802-11b v. 802-11g?
>
> > 802-11b gear is cheap and it's faster than my cable modem.
> Has anyone had
> > experience with 802-11b v. 802-11g? ...thoughts, recommendations?
> > Thanks
> > Ed Wesolowski
> >
>
> If I had 802.11b and was only using it to surf the net, or stuff like
> that, and it worked for me, I wouldn't upgrade. Mainly
> because g goes no
> faster than b does because your bottlneck will be your high
> speed internet
> connection which unless you have something unique isn't more
> than 11MB/s.
>
> If I was starting out new and it was a toss up between b or g
> I'd buy g
> because b is fading away.
>
> If I want to copy stuff from one computer to another in
> bigger than simple
> documents and on a regular basis g would be better because
> throughput is a
> bit better with it, but honestly it's still pretty slow
> compared to wired.
>
> But since b/g are compatible (100% in my house at least) I would start
> with g. I've got Apple's Airports scattered around my home.
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