X-UIDL: 3681 X-Mozilla-Keys: Return-Path: os2-wireless_users-owner@2rosenthals.com Received: from mail.2rosenthals.com (localhost [127.0.0.1] ) by mail.2rosenthals.com (Hethmon Brothers Smtpd) ; Wed, 26 Feb 2003 15:50:19 -0500 Received: from mail1.no-ip.com (goodyear.vitalwerks.com [63.210.163.179] ) by mail.2rosenthals.com (Hethmon Brothers Smtpd) ; Wed, 26 Feb 2003 15:50:17 -0500 X-Envelope-To: Received: (qmail 11017 invoked by uid 89); 26 Feb 2003 20:50:15 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO smtpc.ha-net.ptd.net) (207.44.96.83) by mail1.no-ip.com with SMTP; 26 Feb 2003 20:50:15 -0000 Received: (qmail 18611 invoked by uid 50005); 26 Feb 2003 19:21:21 -0000 Received: from madodel@ptdprolog.net by smtpc.ha-net.ptd.net by uid 50002 with qmail-scanner-1.15 (uvscan: v4.1.60/v4248. spamassassin: 2.43. Clear:. Processed in 1.235718 secs); 26 Feb 2003 19:21:21 -0000 Received: from os2-rocks2.cmts.sth.ptd.net (HELO Toshiba1) ([24.229.147.26]) (envelope-sender ) by smtpc.ha-net.ptd.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 26 Feb 2003 19:21:19 -0000 In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: MR/2 Internet Cruiser Edition for OS/2 v2.35 X-Qmail-Scanner-Message-ID: <104628728050218580@smtpc.ha-net.ptd.net> Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2003 15:50:18 est5edt X-OldDate: Wed, 26 Feb 2003 15:50:13 -0500 Sender: os2-wireless_users-owner X-Listname: os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com Reply-To: os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com From: To: os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com Subject: OS/2 Wireless Users List: 2.4GHz phones and 802.11b? X-List-Unsubscribe: Send email to mailusers-request@2rosenthals.com X-List-Owner: mailusers-owner@2rosenthals.com In , on 02/26/03 at 08:54 AM, "Oliver Mark" said: >Unfortunately, >we do not have 5GHz (802.11a) drivers for OS/2. >What would be the most used card ?? I thought he meant 5GHz phone system. But I've read somewhere these tend to have very weak signal strength, especially when walls are in the way. Are there now 5GHz wireless LAN cards? Is this what the 802.11a system use? Mark >Oliver >On 02/26/2003 01:39:05 am, Lewis Rosenthal wrote in OS/2 Wireless Users >List: 2.4GHz phones and 802.11b?: >>A little more on the subject, from another article on the same site, >>this one dealing with 2.4GHz vs 5GHz equipment >>(http://www.80211-planet.com/tutorials/article.php/1569271): >> >>2.4GHz WLANs can experience interference from cordless phones, >>microwaves, and other WLANs. The interfering signals degrade the >>performance of an 802.11b WLAN by periodically blocking users and >>access points from accessing the shared air medium. If it's not >>possible to reduce potential interference to an acceptable level, >>then consider deploying a 5GHz system, which is relatively free >>from interfering sources. >=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= >To unsubscribe from this list, send a message to >steward@2rosenthals.com with the command >"unsubscribe os2-wireless_users" in the body >(omit the quotes). >For help with other commands, send a message >to steward@2rosenthals.com with the command >"help" in the body (omit the quotes). >=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= -- From the eComStation Desktop of: Mark Dodel Warpstock 2002, In the home of OS/2 - Austin, Texas. Were you there? http://www.warpstock.org For a choice in the future of personal computing, Join VOICE - http://www.os2voice.org "The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than their democratic State itself. That in it's essence, is Fascism - ownership of government by an individual, by a group or by any controlling private power." Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Message proposing the Monopoly Investigation, 1938 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= To unsubscribe from this list, send a message to steward@2rosenthals.com with the command "unsubscribe os2-wireless_users" in the body (omit the quotes). For help with other commands, send a message to steward@2rosenthals.com with the command "help" in the body (omit the quotes). =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=