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Lewis G Rosenthal <os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com> |
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os2-wireless_users-owner <os2-wireless_users-owner@2rosenthals.com> |
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[OS2Wireless] 11g Cards |
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Sat, 13 Dec 2003 17:06:42 -0500 |
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os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com |
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On 12/13/2003 01:50 pm, David Butkovich thus wrote :
On Fri, 12 Dec 2003 20:33:13 -0500, Lewis G Rosenthal wrote:
Hi, David.
On 12/12/2003 08:13 pm, David Butkovich thus wrote :
2. Is it available in 16 bit? I still use my trusty old Toshiba.
Which 802.11g card is 16-bit? I'm not familiar with the particular implementations.
16 bit as opposed to Cardbus 32 bit. A Cardbus PCMCIA card has the row of
bumps along the top of the leading insertion edge .
Oh, I know the difference between PCMCIA and CardBus cards. I was referring to which Wi-Fi adapter you had in mind. I don't recall which cards are PCMCIA and which are CardBus. I think the Buffalo cards are CardBus (set one up once - 'doze only, naturally, as they're based on the Broadcom chipset, and Broadcom - in their infinite wisdom - won't release their driver spec). Besides that, the only cards I've seen have been PCMCIA (16 bit).
I hate for this new AP to be wasting its capabilities.
Don't worry! It's only a matter of time, and besides, for browsing the net, 11Mbps is more than adequate (if you're sitting on a broadband link approaching 11Mbps, then that's a different story!). Of course, if you are on a Wi-Fi segment of a 100Mbps LAN, then you might want the additional bandwidth for file transfers and such, or if you have several Wi-Fi devices, 100Mbps does divide by 10 more comfortably, but overall, 11Mbps is fine. Besides, 11g does a theoretical maximum of 54Mbps, but realistically, you'll see more along the lines of 20-23Mbps, assuming there are no 11b devices in the air (in that case, the whole segment slows to 11Mbps).
What AP did you get? Inquiring minds, you know...
A Linksys WT54G which replaced a Linksys WAP11 with a Linksys W????41 router
combo. Both sides set up with a web browser. The downside is the reduction
in the number of LEDs but I can live with that. I realize I can get a
Cardbus 802.11g PCMCIA card for the newer Wincrap laptop I use in the
business world but I am looking for the OS/2 solution.
I'm very familiar with the LinkSys WT54G. The post-Cisco-buyout firmware is very nice to work with. I can't say for sure about the earlier release(s), however. Is yours a v1.1 or v2 (can't remember which hardware version they released after 1.0)?
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