Reasons to buy 802.11g?

Other than huge file transfers, is there any reason to purchase
802.11g? The 802.11b is already 10x the speed of DSL, not sure what
the advantage would be in going with g...

Because it is faster - LOL

Steve wrote:
> Other than huge file transfers, is there any reason to purchase
> 802.11g? The 802.11b is already 10x the speed of DSL, not sure what
> the advantage would be in going with g...

LAN speed, not 'Net speed. If you need local performance (like moving large
files regularly), then WirelessG is what you want. Most home nets will be
more than satisfied with B, though.

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"Steve" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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Other than huge file transfers, is there any reason to purchase
802.11g? The 802.11b is already 10x the speed of DSL, not sure what
the advantage would be in going with g...

In article <(E-Mail Removed) om>, John T wrote:

> Most home nets will be more than satisfied with B, though.

As a home LAN, B is frustratingly SLOW. It takes a few minutes to copy
files with B that a cheap 100MB LAN copies in 20 seconds or less. So far
as I'm concerned, both B (and even G) are only good for light use, such
as browsing the Web and watching a streaming video. It would be good if
some enterprising manufacturer would come along and create cards that
utilize channels 1, 6, and 11 in parallel for tripple G throughput. :-)

- Dan

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>As a home LAN, B is frustratingly SLOW. It takes a few minutes to copy
>files with B that a cheap 100MB LAN copies in 20 seconds or less.

What size files are we talking about?

In article <(E-Mail Removed)>, Steve wrote:
> (E-Mail Removed) wrote:
>>As a home LAN, B is frustratingly SLOW. It takes a few minutes to copy
>>files with B that a cheap 100MB LAN copies in 20 seconds or less.
>
> What size files are we talking about?
>

A few hundred megs at most of Visual C projects, installation kits,
misc, executables, sources (million+ lines of code), etc. Small
potatoes really and at 100MB they move quickly. At 802.11b speeds,
"considerable patience" is required.

- Dan

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> A few hundred megs at most of Visual C projects, installation kits,
> misc, executables, sources (million+ lines of code), etc. Small
> potatoes really and at 100MB they move quickly. At 802.11b speeds,
> "considerable patience" is required.

That's what makes you the "atypical" home net user, I think. *Most* home
networks have far simpler requirements (sharing resources like a single 'Net
conn, printer/file sharing, and maybe gaming).

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I have a Video system for recording MPEGs then sending them to my system
with a DVD burner. Talk about slow, move a 4 Gig file across 802.11b. I
have a batch file set up to move the files at night. It takes about 2 1/2
hours.

"John T" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> > A few hundred megs at most of Visual C projects, installation kits,
> > misc, executables, sources (million+ lines of code), etc. Small
> > potatoes really and at 100MB they move quickly. At 802.11b speeds,
> > "considerable patience" is required.
>
> That's what makes you the "atypical" home net user, I think. *Most* home
> networks have far simpler requirements (sharing resources like a single
'Net
> conn, printer/file sharing, and maybe gaming).
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> John T
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Terminal wrote:

> I have a Video system for recording MPEGs then sending them to my system
> with a DVD burner. Talk about slow, move a 4 Gig file across 802.11b. I
> have a batch file set up to move the files at night. It takes about 2 1/2
> hours.

4 gig files? Jesus f**king christ.

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"Rôgêr" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> 4 gig files? Jesus f**king christ.

Tell me about it. Buy a DVD burner!

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