[39420] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: High speed access
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tom Lettington)
Fri Jul 6 13:43:35 2001
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Date: Fri, 06 Jul 2001 10:42:59 -0700
To: Leo Bicknell <bicknell@ufp.org>, nanog@merit.edu
From: Tom Lettington <tom@tfl.net>
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Unless you are using one of the SOHO access point units (my sample sample
space=2) in which case, the performance falls off rapidly when interior or
exterior walls are in the way!
At 12:51 PM 7/6/2001 -0400, Leo Bicknell wrote:
>On Fri, Jul 06, 2001 at 09:53:19AM -0400, Andrew Brown wrote:
> > symetric 11 Mbps sounds...goofy. especially if based on 802.11b,
> > which utilizes a broadcast mechanism. besides, i've yet to meet
> > *anyone* who got past about 2/3 of the theoretical "bandwidth" of
> > 802.11b. imho, it's the spinal tap of the networking era (it "goes to
> > 11", but is actually just a rumor and sort of made up).
>
>I believe you will find 802.11b performs about as well, on average,
>as 10 meg shared ethernet.
>
>--
>Leo Bicknell - bicknell@ufp.org
>Systems Engineer - Internetworking Engineer - CCIE 3440
>Read TMBG List - tmbg-list-request@tmbg.org, www.tmbg.org
