Should I upgrade for B to G?

Wireless router/pc wireless nic/laptop wireless card
All 802.11b. Worth the expense to upgrade?

Bogey wrote:
> Wireless router/pc wireless nic/laptop wireless card
> All 802.11b. Worth the expense to upgrade?
>
>

If you primary WiFi use is to get to the 'net, then no; either
802.11b or 802.11g is way faster than almost any path to the 'net.
802.11b is 11 Mb/s, 802.11g is 54 Mb/s; cable is typically 1.5 Mb/s,
ADSL is <1 Mb/s, T1 is ~1.5 Mb/s. Since the connection between the
router and the 'net is the bottleneck, making the connection
between the router and the PCs even faster will not help.

OTOH, if you do a lot of inter-PC file copies over your LAN,
then the fact that 11g is 4-5 times as fast as 11b will certainly
be apparent on long file transfers.
--
Cheers, Bob

"Bob WIllard" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> Bogey wrote:
> > Wireless router/pc wireless nic/laptop wireless card
> > All 802.11b. Worth the expense to upgrade?
> >
> >
>
> If you primary WiFi use is to get to the 'net, then no; either
> 802.11b or 802.11g is way faster than almost any path to the 'net.
> 802.11b is 11 Mb/s, 802.11g is 54 Mb/s; cable is typically 1.5 Mb/s,
> ADSL is <1 Mb/s, T1 is ~1.5 Mb/s. Since the connection between the
> router and the 'net is the bottleneck, making the connection
> between the router and the PCs even faster will not help.
>
> OTOH, if you do a lot of inter-PC file copies over your LAN,
> then the fact that 11g is 4-5 times as fast as 11b will certainly
> be apparent on long file transfers.
> --
> Cheers, Bob

Thanks for the info. I really have no need for "speed" between the
computers. Just the
mobility from the router.
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