Wireless Card Suggestion

Peter Clutton peterclutton at gmail.com
Fri Nov 11 05:21:31 GMT 2005


On 11/11/05, Tim Holmes <tim at unixtechs.org> wrote:
> I have a friend who's using a Linksys card, but he's uses a Linksys router.
> The one he uses is 54Mbps, and I've seen a number of 108Mbps and 125Mbps.
> Since I'm using this for a gateway, should I go for a card with higher Mbps?
> Or do you really think that will make a difference?

I could be wrong, but I was under the impression that the speed is
somewhat reliant on the protocol. For instance, the older 802.11a/b 
are like 11Mbps, whereas the newer 802.11g runs at 54Mbps. I am not
aware of any faster cards, but I haven't been keeping up to date with
wireless.


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