Wireless Card Suggestion from freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 112, Issue 63

[Joe Altman]

On Fri, Nov 11, 2005 at 12:00:49PM +0000, freebsd-questions-request at freebsd.org wrote:
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> Today's Topics:
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>    4. Wireless Card Suggestion (Tim Holmes)
>    5. Re: Wireless Card Suggestion (Peter Clutton)
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> Message: 4
> Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2005 00:07:12 -0500
> From: Tim Holmes <tim at unixtechs.org>
> Subject: Wireless Card Suggestion
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> 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?
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> Message: 5
> Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2005 16:21:29 +1100
> From: Peter Clutton <peterclutton at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: Wireless Card Suggestion
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> 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 read a rant somewhere or another about the Atheros cards; and the
ranter was saying something about the chips using 2 channels...does
anyone on this list know if that alleged use of 2 channels is real,
and if so, is the reason 108 Mbps is on the box?

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