On Sunday September 7 2003 08:02 am, Derek Jennings wrote:
> Actually you will be lucky to get more than 5 Mbps of 'goodput'
> out of an 11Mbps wireless card. I spent some time recently
> putting together a wireless router for a small ISP here in the
> UK, and that was the best throughput I measured, (side by side on
> the bench) and agreed with info I have read around the web. Its
> the packet overhead and forward error correction that limits it.
> http://reviews.cnet.com/Siemens_SpeedStream_Powerline_802_11b_Wir
>eless_Access_Point/4505-3334_7-20684674-4.html
> http://www.cs.umd.edu/~shankar/Papers/802-11b-profile-1.pdf
>
>
> I found some chip sets were better than others. Cisco Aironet was
> a bit faster than Orinoco/Agere , and Atmel (usb) was a fair bit
> faster than Prism 2.5 (usb) There is not much in it so do not
> base your choice just on my say so.
>
> derek
OK, thanks. That all seems to confirm what I've read. I'm not
considering wireless, just curious.
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