Will a wifi 802.11g CF card be coming soon?

[kuyars]

Hi, I'm really itching to get a 802.11b CF card for my axim. But I noticed that Linksys just put out a series of 802.11g products, except for a CF card. I thought that if a 802.11g CF card is on the horizon, then I might as well wait.

Is there some technological reason why there isn't a 802.11g CF card now? Or is it simply too soon to expect one?

THX!

[TopDog]

Or is it simply too soon to expect one?
Yes :-)

[butch]

But does more bandwidth worth it?
I'm not sure that 54Mbps will help much if you use it to go on the internet via a 1Mb DSL or cable modem... neither when listening mp3 over the network...
but a 11g AP is a good thing for a laptop or a workstation and will still allow your pocketpc 11b card.

[TopDog]

Another detail... I also am the owner of a Socket 10/100 CF-card.

Can't say I see much difference between 100Mbit and 11Mbit in transfer on the PocketPC (maybe the PocketPC's we have today is to slow for these speeds???)

[Stik]

Some thoughts to consider when going 802.11g.....

' In the absence of a certification program, there might even be problems connecting 11g products to existing 11b equipment -- the kind that's installed in Starbucks and just about anywhere else you might want to use a wireless notebook. Though the Linksys Wireless-G products worked with most of the 11b equipment I tried, I couldn't get a Netgear dual-band 11a/11b card to connect to the Wireless-G access point in 11b mode.

When I reported the problem, Linksys said it guarantees that its 11g products will work with Wi-Fi-certified 11b equipment, but that the Netgear card in question hasn't been certified. A Netgear spokeswoman responded that the design its card is based on has been certified, so the problem must be Linksys' fault. '

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2003/01/20/BU143826.DTL&type=business

[Eitel]

Aren't 802.11g cards 32bit Cardbus in order to support a?

32bit Cardbus won't work with the Pocket PC OS.

[kuyars]

hey thanks for all the responses. it would seem to make sense to either just get an 802.11b now or maybe wait until the 802.11g spec is finalized. that being said, maybe it actually would be hard noticing the difference in speeds though...

[grohl]

I'm in the same boat. Sounds like the "g" stuff that is out right now is a little buggy, and the ones that do own it can expect a firmware update... I'm going to go ahead and purchase a "b" card and eventually get "g" network stuff.

I doubt a "g" card is worth it, UNLESS you plan on wireless sync transferring LARGE files. "b" gives you more universal compatibility, at Starbucks, etc. Right?

[Jer]

DLink put out an A/G pcmcia card. Waiting for the cf version...

[SHoTTa35]

Aren't 802.11g cards 32bit Cardbus in order to support a?

32bit Cardbus won't work with the Pocket PC OS.

Carbus cards are PCMCIA, not CF - Compact Flash. CF cards are not only memory... there are CF 802.11B cards out now and we're just waiting for a G card to go with our G networks :D

[rasputinj]

But does more bandwidth worth it?
I'm not sure that 54Mbps will help much if you use it to go on the internet via a 1Mb DSL or cable modem... neither when listening mp3 over the network...
but a 11g AP is a good thing for a laptop or a workstation and will still allow your pocketpc 11b card.

the problem with 802.11g is it is not living up to the 54Mbps speeds it is testing out somehwhere in the high 20's