<div dir="ltr">Signal range varies greatly depending on the access point and what's between you and the access point.<br><br>I generally pick up signals that my G built-in card doesn't see, but not too much further. There's a quality inn near my apartment....on the other side of the highway, I pick that up (barely) probably like 1/4 mile. My Intel 802.11g built-in card doesn't see it.<br>
<br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2008/9/2 Courtney Thomas <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:courtneycthomas@bellsouth.net">courtneycthomas@bellsouth.net</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">Stephen,</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">Thanks for your reply and ....what's the maximum
range of your Cisco Aeronet PCMCIA, please ?</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">How much trouble is it to get it going
? :-)</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">Cordially,</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2">Courtney</font></div><font color="#888888">
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<b>From:</b>
<a title="skbenja@gmail.com" href="mailto:skbenja@gmail.com" target="_blank">Stephen
Benjamin</a> </div>
<div style="font-family: arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"><b>To:</b> <a title="ale@ale.org" href="mailto:ale@ale.org" target="_blank">ale@ale.org</a> </div>
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<div style="font-family: arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"><b>Subject:</b> Re: [ale] significance of ->
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<div dir="ltr">In terms of Linux support, 802.11b is supported wonderfully for
most (all?) cards nowadays. g and a support is more experimental, and
the bulk of your problems are going to come from the newer stuff. My
Cisco Aeronet PCMCIA card still works better range-wise than any other card
I've ever had. <br><br>Although, modern distros I guess are better about doing
stuff for you. I only recently upgraded to g, and I ended up putting
Ubuntu on my laptop (had Gentoo before). 802.11g worked out of the box
as did most everything else...installing gentoo was a 4-day project of
compiling/patching/etc.<br><br><br><br>
<div class="gmail_quote">2008/9/2 Sean McNealy <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:sean.mcnealy@gmail.com" target="_blank">sean.mcnealy@gmail.com</a>></span><br>
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<div dir="ltr">Though if you're only getting b to save money, you may be
getting older, outdated hardware that contains bugs that have been since
fixed or it just might not be working like new anymore (or could have been
second-rate to begin with and that's why nobody bought it years ago when it
was new).<br><br>I get the b/g stuff even if it's just for the b
protocol. You get what you pay for.<br><font color="#888888"><br>-Sean</font>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 11:19 AM, Jim Popovitch <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:yahoo@jimpop.com" target="_blank">yahoo@jimpop.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">2008/9/2
Stephen Benjamin <<a href="mailto:skbenja@gmail.com" target="_blank">skbenja@gmail.com</a>>:<br>
<div>> 802.11b and g both run around the 2.4GHz radio spectrum, b is
limited to<br>> speeds of up to 11mbps whereas G can get up to 54mbps.
Lower frequencies<br>> can penetrate walls better and travel
further. a is also 54mbps but runs at<br>> 5GHz.<br>><br>>
b is rare nowadays, with g being the most common. a is rare, but
there's a<br>> few random 802.11a access points out
there.<br><br></div>I run nothing but b, 90% of the time. g is
great in perfect worlds,<br>but b is much more likely to work across
varied hardware and software<br>drivers.<br><br>-Jim P.<br>
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