High speed access

Fri Jul 6 17:42:59 UTC 2001

Unless you are using one of the SOHO access point units (my sample sample 
space=2) in which case, the performance falls off rapidly when interior or 
exterior walls are in the way!

At 12:51 PM 7/6/2001 -0400, Leo Bicknell wrote:

>On Fri, Jul 06, 2001 at 09:53:19AM -0400, Andrew Brown wrote:
> > symetric 11 Mbps sounds...goofy.  especially if based on 802.11b,
> > which utilizes a broadcast mechanism.  besides, i've yet to meet
> > *anyone* who got past about 2/3 of the theoretical "bandwidth" of
> > 802.11b.  imho, it's the spinal tap of the networking era (it "goes to
> > 11", but is actually just a rumor and sort of made up).
>
>I believe you will find 802.11b performs about as well, on average,
>as 10 meg shared ethernet.
>
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>Leo Bicknell - bicknell at ufp.org
>Systems Engineer - Internetworking Engineer - CCIE 3440
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