> Be aware when speaking in Mbps, this is also used for advertisements, is that > it contains > the overhead within it.
Oh it's much worse (philsophically) then that. Yes, it contains the overhead, but then even with that it would still give great data rates. The problem is bigger then that. Transmission over the air just isn't that reliable at WiFi's power ratings, top that with the insanely crowded 2.4Ghz spectrum, and you have real issues. You'd think that would be obvious, apparently not, since Netgear got sued, http://www.techworld.com/applications/news/index.cfm?NewsID=4873 because they didn't print that clear enough on their devices. Before 802.11g routers even came out, I got a little forward thinking going and bought all 802.11a equipment for my wireless network. At 5Ghz it shouldn't (in theory) go through walls quite as well, but in my real world experience it has always outperformed 802.11g in that aspect, and all others. I suspect because of the relatively quite 5ghz spectrum. I bought all Netgear equipment, and in their "Turbo Mode" I can get a _real_ throughput of 40-50Mbps through a single (normal house) wall. Here's to watching MythTV recordings over WiFi-802.11a since 2002!!!! -- Anthony Vito [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
