[Ti] Which airport card alternative?

[Kynan Shook]

Now don't be so quick to assume that some of us don't have dedicated 
lines...  ;-)  Where I work and live (a university), I've been able to 
get up to about 1.3 or 1.4 MBps.  I'm usually on Airport, which tends 
to max out for me at about 300-450 KBps.

Also, just a note: 802.11g does NOT use the 5 GHz band, it uses the 2.4 
GHz band like b does; this is how it maintains backwards compatibility. 
  And as far as interference from cordless phones, my house has 5 2.4 
GHz cordless phones and 3 (phone) base stations, and I've never had any 
problems getting Airport, even though the phones are often in close 
proximity to the computers.  It all depends on your model of cordless 
phone, and how good it is at picking out unused channels


Kynan Shook
kshook at mac.com
http://homepage.mac.com/kshook/index.html.

Jesse Brown <jesse.brown at mac.com> writes:
> Unless you have a dedicated T-3 internet connection, your web pages 
> are not
> showing up any faster with the "g" format card than with a "b" style 
> card.
> The 54 MB/s is for starters theoretical and will not be seen unless 
> it's a
> file transfer between 2 machines on the same LAN and you are "close" 
> to the
> base station.
>
> "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.