802.11g - compatibility issues

[grohl]

I'm rather new to the forums...my Axim is on its way this week...At some point this year I'm going to do the wireless thing.

By that I mean, setting up a home network and outfitting myself with a WiFi card for the Axim.

I think I'm going to wait for the 802.11g products to sort themselves out. Higher throughput and backwards compatibility with 802.11b sounds like a good combination.

Here's my question: I know a 802.11g WAP would be backwards compatible with 802.11b clients. Does it work the other way around? If I had a 802.11g CF card could I connect to a 802.11b WAP?

[grohl]

I'm rather new to the forums...my Axim is on its way this week...At some point this year I'm going to do the wireless thing.

By that I mean, setting up a home network and outfitting myself with a WiFi card for the Axim.

I think I'm going to wait for the 802.11g products to sort themselves out. Higher throughput and backwards compatibility with 802.11b sounds like a good combination.

Here's my question: I know a 802.11g WAP would be backwards compatible with 802.11b clients. Does it work the other way around? If I had a 802.11g CF card could I connect to a 802.11b WAP?

[grohl]

For those who care, there really "is" working 802.11g hardware, check out this link for the first-to-market from Buffalo Technology.

Same review was in smallnetbuilder recently...

[Ekkie Tepsupornchai]

Originally Posted by grohl

Here's my question: I know a 802.11g WAP would be backwards compatible with 802.11b clients. Does it work the other way around? If I had a 802.11g CF card could I connect to a 802.11b WAP?

I don't know for sure, but my guess would be that your 802.11g CF card would have to support "downmixing" its own signals to the 802.11b standard. Otherwise, I wouldn't count on that working since the WAP really acts as your middleware is holds the primary responsibility for interoperability between connected systems.