Date: Sun, 12 Oct 2003 21:57:39 +0000 (UTC) From: naddy@mips.inka.de (Christian Weisgerber) To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: General Wireless Network Question Message-ID: <bmcioj$2pga$1@kemoauc.mips.inka.de> References: <20031011212201.GA67228@bishop.my.domain> <p0600205dbbae2c684bd9@[10.0.1.2]>
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Brad Knowles <brad.knowles@skynet.be> wrote: > With 802.11b devices, the best speed you will be able to see is > about 3Mbps, "11Mbit/s" nominally. In practice, I can get ~550kbytes/s out of it. That is very slow if you're used to Fast Ethernet. Not that you are going to notice for web browsing. OTOH, if you copy around CD images... > I would say that VOIP over 802.11b could very easily be marginal at > best. Oh c'mon, standard telephony voice is 64kbit/s. > Myself, I'm a strong believer in having much higher LAN bandwidth > than your WAN upstream. Funnily enough, I just ordered my first GigE parts today. -- Christian "naddy" Weisgerber naddy@mips.inka.de
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