[Ti] signal strength discrepancy

[Gary Wall]

But your internet speed will be limited by your ISP, ie. 1.5Mbps. So 
changing the speed of your Airport really should minimal or no effect on 
your Internet speed.
Gary

On Wednesday, March 19, 2003, at 02:41  PM, Roger Snyder wrote:

> On 3/19/03 11:24, "Kynan Shook" wrote:
>
>> The AirPort menu (at least in OS X) I believe shows you fairly
>> accurately what speed your wireless connection is running at; to
>> increase the maximum distance, your speed drops as you get further
>> away.  4 bars=11 Mbps, 3 bars=5.5 Mbps, 2 bars=2 Mbps, 1 bar=1Mbps.  If
>> you're always at 4 (or 3) bars, you can sacrifice range to (possibly)
>> get slightly better speeds by changing the multicast rate to 11 (or
>> 5.5) Mbps.  If you want a little more range, you can drop the multicast
>> rate to 1 Mbps, but your wireless network will probably run slower.
>
>     That was clearer than I've seen it explained before.
>
>     My multicast selection has 5.5 and 11 grayed out though.
>
> --
> Roger
>
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