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Re: WaveLAN Bronze and IETF wireless?

2000-03-27 21:30:04

In message 
<200003280414(_dot_)NAA04994(_at_)duplo(_dot_)sm(_dot_)sony(_dot_)co(_dot_)jp>, 
Atsushi Onoe writes:

It is not accurate.  An 11Mbps card will still be able to communicate
with an access point in 11Mbps if the signal strength is enough.
But total network throughput will decrease since the communication
between the access point ant the a 2Mbps card would occupy the radio
for longer period.

According to the Lucent documentation, a network with a mix of
different cards will "operate at the highest common speed."

That documentation is from last October or so (when the Turbo cards
came out); since then, there have been about 4 revisions of the
firmware, so things may have changed.
-Angelos