Re: Explain the 802.11b Card Description

[Clark Martin]

At 12:00 AM -0600 9/8/04, Bob wrote:
The National Enquirer reports at 6:25 PM -0700 9/7/04, Clark Martin wrote:
Clark,
  I'm somewhat confused. If I am interpreting what you are saying
below correctly, it seems that there is a conflict between you are
saying and what CJ said yesterday (quoted after your text for
reference). He says that DS is an "ancient" standard, whereas you
seem to be indicating that it is a current standard ("used to
describe  how most 802.11b stuff works").

That CARD is ancient but the DSS format is current.  I don't think 
that 802.11DS is a standard but instead it's a manufacturers 
designation.  IEEE standards have a pretty fixed  identification 
system and "DS" wouldn't fit.

Am I misinterpreting either, or both, of you?
Distributed Spread Spectrum is a
technical term used to describe  how most 802.11b stuff works.
Frequency hopping was used at one point but is more or less gone now.
So if you also saw 802.11FH it would be a technical distinction
rather than marketing fluff.  Seeing as this RoamAbout Card sounds
kind of old then the DS would be a quite relevant description.
At 11:48 AM -0500 9/6/04, CJ wrote:
802.11DS is an ancient standard from before 802.11B that runs slower.  It is
not used often.  Check out this link:
 >http://standards.ieee.org/getieee802/802.11.html

This link lists an 802.11d but not DS as far as I could see.  "d" is 
something different.
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