B0b wrote: Clyde, What's a 802.11DS card? I know it's a wireless PCMCIA card. But what's the "DS" all about. And I've seen the "RoamAbout" description before, but I'm not sure what exactly it refers to.
Thanx,
B0b
A: Wow a direct question by name and I am so self-conscious of my innate ignorance. Anyway, by now, B0b (sp?--is that pronounced bOHb or bzerob?) you have heard a lot from a lot of people and I have learned some things.
One thing I can repeat is that 802.11(b) probably does go farther than (g).
I thought that the "DS" was something that D-Link used for their "super fast" version of their card. Apparently it means: "Direct Sequence-compliant wireless network interface card" and it is offered for interasys cards.
As apparently everyone else knows, this is an old crappy standard.
Anyway, the D-Link "plus" cards that allow you to use their faster proprietary system when their router is available. As far as I can tell these cards default down to the the normal standards otherwise.
I really have lots of skepticism about all this stuff. What I do know is that caching and signal selection and switching and conflict resolution and so forth are critical for wireless networks and this guy at Ohio State came up with the first solution to make 802.11(b) actually work even thought other faster standards were already out.
Apple licensed some of this stuff from this guy. I don't know about other people but there are huge performance disparities with all of this equipment based upon signal strength & caching and so forth.
Just make sure, if you have some old macs and printers, get stuff that transmits appletalk packets. Some D--link things don't.
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