[Ti] Which airport card alternative?

Sam Hotchkiss ti at zlit.net
Wed Aug 6 09:33:28 PDT 2003


On 8/6/03 8:54 AM, "Benn" <joverkamp at earthlink.net> wrote:

> On Wednesday, August 6, 2003, at 01:42  AM, Jesse Brown wrote:
>> "g" and "a" format cards use the 5 Ghz radio band which is highly
>> susceptible to interference and whose performance (throughput) falls
>> off
>> dramatically with distance and virtually any interfering structures.
>> 
>> They are however not prone to interference from cordless phones like
>> the "b"
>> standard working in the 2.4 Ghz band.
> 
> Actually, 'b' and 'g' both use the 2.4ghz frequency band, which is
> partially why they are able to be compatible.

Right-- doesn't 802.11a use 5.0ghz?
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