RE: [PLUG] wireless router

["Webmaster at Esmiley.net" <esmiley@esmiley.net>]

Anybody have any information on the other standards (not including a, b, and
g) in progress in 802.11x?

Thanks,
Eugene

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plug-admin@lists.phillylinux.org wrote:
> On Friday, January 10, 2003, at 07:35  PM, Paul wrote:
>> What is 802.11g?  11b is the standard, right?  Does 11a actually
>> come after 11b?  What other 11s are there?
>>
>> jon wrote:
>>
>>> Is that truly a standard now? I was under the impression that
>>> there were competing 802.11g protocols out there, but I might be
>>> confused.
>
> I believe 802.11g was finalized around Thanksgiving 2002. Balloting
> is currently underway. Formal standardization expected in June 2003.
>
> 11a did become a standard after 11b was approved.
>
> 11b and 11g are compatible (2.4ghz). 11a is not (5ghz).
>
> 11a and 11g both operate at 54meg but in different frequency bands.
>
> All 802.11x equipment is "compatible" -- Apple's AirPort gear was
> based on the same Lucent (now Orinco) cards that everybody else who
> was "first to market" used; there was no competition for about 6-9
> months. I don't know yet who is manufacturing Apple's 11g cards. (I
> do know that Apple is OEMing them just as they did with the first
> 11b cards.)
>
> Aeronet was the first competitor to Lucent with a card on the
> market. (Later purchased by cisco.) I believe that Compaq and
> Lynksys came to market with their own cards about a year after
> Apple began marketing the Lucent cards.
>
>
> T.T.F.N.
> William H. Magill
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