On Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 08:57:35AM +1300, derek wrote:
That is true, They do conform to 802.11 which is the 2.4Ghz standard for indoors. It is good up to about 2500 feet away from the transmission site.
They do 802.11b, actually, but will fall back to the lower 802.11 symbol rates of 1MSps with 1 or 2-bit symbols using DSSS. The standard makes no restriction whether it should be used indoors or outdoors, and the performance you get depends on many factors, as you say. I have a friend who replaced the silver turbo wavelan card in his apple Airport base station with a gold card, then rigged an external antenna which he pointed at his home, about 5km line of sight from the roof of AboveNet's SJC1 facility in San Jose. [He also burned a cooling grate into the case and put a CPU fan behind it, which it makes it look very industrial :)] He gets about 4Mbit/s with 0.1% packet loss. Joe --------- To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog