Re: WaveLAN Bronze and IETF wireless?

[Angelos D. Keromytis]

In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Atsushi Onoe writes:
>
>It is not accurate.  An 11Mbps card will still be able to communicate
>with an access point in 11Mbps if the signal strength is enough.
>But total network throughput will decrease since the communication
>between the access point ant the a 2Mbps card would occupy the radio
>for longer period.

According to the Lucent documentation, a network with a mix of
different cards will "operate at the highest common speed."

That documentation is from last October or so (when the Turbo cards
came out); since then, there have been about 4 revisions of the
firmware, so things may have changed.
-Angelos