On Mon, 8 Jul 2002, Paul Hardy wrote:
> >In reality, you're lucky to get 20 Mbps out of it,
> > and the range is generally under 10m indoors. (I have one friend who
> > deployed it in his office and discovered, much to his dismay, that it
> > won't even go through cubicle walls, and he needed about 3-4 times the
> > number of access points that he'd anticipated.)
>
> Base stations tend not to have very good antennas. In fact, some brands
> simply have a PCMCIA card surrounded by gubbins. Instead of adding more base
> stations, a decent antenna may be all that's necessary. Also, a base station
> down one end of the room with a directional antenna may be better than an
> omnidirectional in the center of the room.
Are you talking about your experience with 5 GHz 802.11a, or 2 GHz
802.11b? I agree with your statement if it's about 802.11b, but I
was talking about 802.11a.
cjs
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Received on Tue Jul 9 05:48:32 2002