[Ti] Netgear vs. Airport

[Matthew Fosberg]

On Monday, February 17, 2003, at 12:51  PM, Paul Russell wrote:

>>
>> I just checked on the Apple website, and as I expected, Airport 
>> Extreme is backwards compatible with Airport. So any Airport Extreme 
>> equipped device should be compatible with any 802.11b device.
>>
>
> Yes, but it's a lowest common denominator thing - the slower 802.11b 
> devices on the network will tend to drag the performance of the whole 
> network down. From what I've read recently the whole 802.11g thing is 
> a mess - the manufacturers have gone ahead and started shipping 
> pre-802.11g products before the standard has been finalised so there 
> are going to be all sorts of headaches down the road.
>
> Paul
>

That may be true, but the basic functionality will still be there. My 
point was in response to a couple of posts that seemed to indicate that 
there was no interoperability between the two standards.

Matt