May depend on your house construction and where you put the antenna. Using 802.11b we get around 10 mps. A bit less if you are in one part of the house but I don't consider 14 mps to be that slow. Traditional ethernet is 10, most broadband is between 600k and 1.5mps.
If I have a huge file to transfer I'll use our wired network with 100mps but for the most part wireless is plenty fast enough especially when the alternative is having cables running around the floor, drilling holes in the walls/floor (2 story house), etc. Next upgrade here will be to move to 802.11g. Then I can get rid of the cable that runs to the Mac and print server. Cheryl D. Wise MS-MVP- FrontPage www.wiserways.com mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 713.353.0139 Office -----Original Message----- From: Crooks, David L. Also, less speed. I had many problems with wireless at my house and ended up with using the outlet Ethernet connections to go from upstairs to downstairs. It is still slow (14mbps) but will have to do until I can punch some holes in the wall. -----Original Message----- From: Paul Larue Go wireless, less stress, no cabling works, and... MOBILITY!!! Get a wireless accesspoint that also does routing. Then get PCMCIA wireless adapters for the laptops as well as PCI wireless adapters for the PC's (you can also get USB ones). Some useful makes are linksys, dlink and cisco. AFAIK cisco does not provide 802.11g devices whereas linksys does, I dunno for dlink. 802.11g is better than traditional 802.11b since it runs at 54mbps instead of 11mbps. You can also get 802.11a which runs at 54mbps but uses a different frequency that's less congested. Try to get a device that does access point AS WELL AS router, this will avoid additional costs. ____ • The WDVL Discussion List from WDVL.COM • ____ To Join wdvltalk, Send An Email To: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Send Your Posts To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To set a personal password send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the words: "set WDVLTALK pw=yourpassword" in the body of the email. To change subscription settings to the wdvltalk digest version: http://wdvl.internet.com/WDVL/Forum/#sub ________________ http://www.wdvl.com _______________________ You are currently subscribed to wdvltalk as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
