On 12/8/05, Anthony Vito <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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!!!!
Remember that all bandwidth values are quoted as being in MegaBits, so divide the value by 8 to get the true MegaByte value. Also remember to take off 10% (Roughly) for overhead. And (Unless coverage is especially spotty) 802.11x is full-duplex, not half-duplex (as I saw posted here earlier). -- Robert "Anaerin" Johnston _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
