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Intel to ship 802.11a products in November

updated 10:00 am EDT, Mon September 10, 2001

 
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In November, Intel plans to ship wireless networking products based around the 802.11a standard, which is about five times faster than the current 802.11b standard used by Apple's AirPort and various other wireless offerings. An 802.11a wireless PC card will cost $179, about $69 more than the older technology.


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  1. \0

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    09/10, 10:17am | report spam | Reply | delete

    Airport 2...

    ...is right around the corner.

  1. erikvlie

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    Wireless LAN tutorial

    If you're new to WLAN and IEEE 802.11, there's a nice series of articles on it-enquirer.com.

    It's not complete yet, but one of the pieces contains a full overview of all the IEEE 802.11 specs--impressive.

  1. paulc

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    Sheesh!

    Bad move.. while 11a is a LOT faster, it's unneccessary. Especially given that it's range is quite a bit less (50 feet). A more sensible approach would be to go for 11g.. which DOES double 11b speed, but also oncreases the range in which it can operate.

    Right now the most "popular" broadband speed is 2 Mb. Even the currrent 11b is about 5 times faster than that.. so speed just isn't all that big a deal. More distance, on the other hand, would certainly be better.

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    Price differences

    Dell are selling 802.11b cards for $139, compared to Apple's $99, so for PC users it's only $40 more, while us Mac users have to pay out $80 more! :-)

  1. Charles A

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    09/10, 11:24am | report spam | Reply |

    Probably not...

    From the article, if anyone read it:
    "The two wireless standards are not compatible"... and it's probably not going to make much of a showing until 2004.

    If I were in charge at Apple I would be putting this in the pending tray. All the hassles of WEP encryption being crackable means corporates aren't so keen anymore on wireless, and consumers won't need the throughput while they aren't running 10 machines on broadband links.

    Go, Intel! Burn that cash! Give it some Bluetooth too! And don't come crying to us when nobody buys it.

  1. Charles A

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    And also..

    "A 3Com spokesman said the 802.11a products that 3Com is developing and testing don't have the range that that 802.11b products have. Intel executives, however, say customers don't lose any performance with 802.11a.

    If a laptop is 300 feet away from an 802.11b access point, the laptop can get data transfer rates of 2mbps, an Intel spokesman said. With that same distance using 802.11a products, the laptop can have between 2mbps and 12mbps, he said."

    So it's (a) more expensive (b) has less range. Can we please pronounce it dead now rather than having to wait?

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    networking standards

    A quick lesson in the different standards:

    802.11b is airport. 2.4ghz, 11mbps.

    802.11a is 5ghz (not compatible with airport) 54 mbps

    802.11g is 2.4ghz, (not compatible with airport) 54mbps and beyond, without the FCC regulations that 802.11a suffers from by being in the 5ghz band.

    802.11g and 802.11b will not inter-network without a router of some sort, and they won't play well as different signals are being sent, unless the same magic that makes Bluetooth and 802.11b work well together is used.

    See the article I wrote on DeveloperWorks for more information.

    http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/library/wi-what/?dwzone=wireless

    Victor Marks

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    To paulc, you dumbass

    I'm glad you can read Mac OS Rumors. Know what you're talking about next time instead of quoting some knowingly unreliable (and uninformed) jackass like Ryan Meader.

  1. jsporleder

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    Why the rudeness?

    Now, I'm just asking, but is it possible to post a comment on these boards without the personal attacks and using words like "dumbass" and "jackass"? That just doesn't impress me. Your argument may be strong, but the explicit language makes it appear weak. But hey, that's just my opinion, as you are certainly entitled to yours.

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    Re: Dumbass

    Correct or not, would anyone really be surprised if speed-is-everything Intel actually did adopt a faster standard, despite it having shorter range? I think the only reason anyone would take the MacOSRumors report as gospel is because it does not at all seem an unreasonable thing for the idiots at Intel to do.

    Intel: "Yes, it's true you can't be more than 15 feet from the Acess Point, but hey, look how fast this connection is!"
    Consumers: "Oooh! Fast!"

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