On May 3, 2005, at 7:41 PM, Rick McCutcheon wrote:
Someone recently posted a wireless router on the swap list and mentioned in passing that "It is a fact that Wireless B products have a longer range than their G counterparts." Can someone confirm this?
Yes. Higher data rate == shorter range.
From Apple's tech specs on the Airport Extreme:
Range (2)
* 50-foot range from the base station in typical use at 54 Mbps data rate (range depends on building construction) (1)
* 150-foot range from the base station in typical use at 11 Mbps data rate (range depends on building construction)
This is about right for any consumer-level WAP.
Any recommendations on brands that work well with a TiBook (Mercury) with a built in apple card?
Pretty much any will. 802.11b/g is a bog-standard protocol, and I haven't run into a wireless router that wasn't controlled through a web browser in a long time (other than airports, that is)
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