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Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2003 00:58:32 est5edt
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From:  Lewis G Rosenthal <os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com>
To:  os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com
Subject: OS/2 Wireless Users List: new ThinkPad 8

Most of the 802.11g access points I've seen are backward-compatible with 
802.11b. Once the cost comes down, it will make about as much sense to 
deploy an 802.11b access point as it does to deploy a 10Mbps hub (as 
opposed to a 10/100 switch).

There are interoperability concerns, however, as 802.11g is about as 
standardized as a "standard" RS-232 serial port (read: everyone thinks 
he can strap it differently to reinvent the wheel). But just as we saw 
that change with 1GB fiber & copper, so shall this, too.

Neil Waldhauer wrote:

>On Sun, 23 Mar 2003 09:57:06 est5edt, Charles McCallister
><Charles_McCallister@compuserve.com> wrote:
>
>  
>
>>I've decided on wireless DSL using a 2Wire 1000SW router.
>>    
>>
>
>Personally, I'm waiting for all of the OS/2 compatible stuff, Cisco, Linksys,
>and so on that Oliver mentioned to come out. When it does, I'll buy enough
>stuff to go wireless for my office.
>
>I think the infrastructure is going to be 802.11b for a while, sure the
>manufacturers would like us to go with 802.11g, but the deployers seem to want
>802.11b. I could not care less about the manufacturers, but, at least with the
>laptop, I care quite a bit about the deployers.
>
>In my neighborhood, there are a lot of coffee houses, or cafes. All of them are
>worried about Starbuck's, because although Stabuck's coffee is too diluted to
>compete in our market, wireless access is important, and Starbuck's is supposed
>to have that. I think, but I do not know, that it is 802.11b.
>
>I expect a local business to equip all of our local cafe's with a package of
>DSL, an access point, and some Linux-based management software. I'm really
>hoping to use that package, because it would be wierd to sit in a Starbuck's in
>my home town.
>
>But on the road, I'll take any access I can get.
>
>Neil
>  
>

-- 
Lewis
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