Kevin A has range issues, everybody had B clients, B access points are very cheap and plentiful. And finally, the backhaul is probably only 768K to the internet, so the additional throughput of A is lost on a hot spot.
Cheers Nigel Nigel Ballard [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.joejava.com -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kevin Lahey Sent: Wednesday, May 19, 2004 6:12 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [BAWUG] 802.11a hotspots? I finally got around to doing some wardriving with my T40 Thinkpad over the last week. It uses the Atheros a/b chipset, and I was kind of surprised to find so few 802.11a hotspots. Out of the six hundred or so APs I spotted while riding CalTrain and driving 101 between Santa Clara and San Francisco, I think I saw only two 802.11a APs. What's the deal? Is 802.11a really that underutilized? Or is the range too short for me to easily detect while travelling? Or is it just that the bleeding edge Kismet I was running has some sort of bug? Cheers, Kevin [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ BAWUG's general wireless chat mailing list [unsubscribe] http://lists.bawug.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless _______________________________________________ BAWUG's general wireless chat mailing list [unsubscribe] http://lists.bawug.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless
