"There is a subtle advantage to using cisco's hardware (and I've tested a
wide range of mfgr's products) - the aironet/350 series is much more sensitive on the rx side and more immune to adjacent channel power problems. Compared to the inexpensive 802.11 brands, it can have
as much as a 10 dB advantage on the receive end."
As a ham who has done a lot of weak-signal work I am always concerned about optimizing receiver performance. Based on published specs for receiver sensitivity, most of the 802.11b cards seem to be in the same ballpark. The Senao cards I use (Senao/EnGenius NL2511CD Plus EXT2) have about the same receive power required for a given BER for the various modulations as the cisoc cards. Are these numbers not particularly valid? I don't have a bench to really test this stuff so I have been relying on specs. (I know, that is dangerous.) --
Brian Lloyd 6501 Red Hook Plaza, Suite 201 [EMAIL PROTECTED] St. Thomas, VI 00802 +1.340.998.9447 - voice +1.360.838.9669 - fax GMT-4
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