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What’s up with 802.11G?
<b>TweakTown have a new weekly column analysing new or different technologies. This week, it's the turn of 802.11G wireless...</b>
[blockquote]So far the numbers don’t paint a very good story for the new born 802.11G standard. Initially and based only off the Belkin equipment we used (however, after speaking to various retailers, they all tell us the same disappointing story about other 802.11G brand hardware) it’s obvious to see the standard needs a lot of work before it will take off and sell in any quantity. Though in Belkin’s defense, they did include a small piece of paper in the package mentioning that improvements to the 802.11G standard will occur over the coming months. The network company claims that their 802.11G hardware is capable of performing “virtually 5x faster than Wi-Fi (802.11B)” when it was only capable of performing at best 2x faster.[/blockquote]
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[blockquote]So far the numbers don’t paint a very good story for the new born 802.11G standard. Initially and based only off the Belkin equipment we used (however, after speaking to various retailers, they all tell us the same disappointing story about other 802.11G brand hardware) it’s obvious to see the standard needs a lot of work before it will take off and sell in any quantity. Though in Belkin’s defense, they did include a small piece of paper in the package mentioning that improvements to the 802.11G standard will occur over the coming months. The network company claims that their 802.11G hardware is capable of performing “virtually 5x faster than Wi-Fi (802.11B)” when it was only capable of performing at best 2x faster.[/blockquote]
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It's 50% slower than it's rating. 802.11B at 11mbps (1100 KB/s) is really closer to 5mbps (500 KB/s).
802.11G at 54mbps is really closer to 23mbps (2300 KB/s).
Despite this fact, IEEE has already ratified the 11G standard at a FAR more realistic 36mbps.
Furthermore, tweaktown's statements in regards to 802.11G is sorely misrepresentative of throughput I, and many others have experienced.
Sorry TweakTown, you lost this round.