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Re: Wireless speed



What about non-802.11 wireless technologies?  Is anyone using something
else, and if so: what are you getting?  I'm debating building a network of
wireless machines for a small school, where wired is impractical.

Luke


On Tue, 9 Sep 2003, Daniel Pittman wrote:

> On Mon, 8 Sep 2003, tvn wrote:
> > Just wondering,  how fast is everyone wireless speed on a 802.11b card
> > when transfering data from a wired ethernet machine in a LAN ?  I only
> > get about 400KB/s  ... Is that normal ?
>
> Pretty much. After you take into account the overheads, the theoretical
> limit is somewhere around 700K for a perfect wireless link.
>
> Most are not quite that good, so you see something a bit less.
>
>      Daniel
>
>



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