Re: [PLUG] non-standard 11g

[Jason Costomiris <jcostom@jasons.org>]

On Jun 17, 2004, at 2:57 AM, Paul wrote:

> Does anyone have an opinion on non-standard 802.11g, 54Mbit wireless 
> equipment?  For example, Linksys' "SpeedBooster" products or D-Link's 
> 108Mbit "ExtremeG" products.

The Linksys stuff does it by waiting to transmit packets.  In other 
words, buffer the smaller packets to be sent over the air and instead 
send bigger chunks of data.  The result is a very slight increase in 
latency (due to the bufferring), but a 30 - 50% increase in available 
bandwidth.  Not bad.

The Netgear stuff however, is bad news.  They are doing it by using 2 
adjacent wireless channels.  As if that frequency spectrum wasn't 
already crowded enough!  Now they're using double the spectrum for each 
device.  Definitely works better than the Linksys stuff, and if you're 
totally isolated, as in 300 meters or more away from your neighbors, 
then go for it.  Otherwise, you're just being a bad neighbor.

--j

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