Wifi PC card at 100 Mbps

[yeche]

IS there WiFi Pc card that work at 100 Mbps

[butch]

There is no 100Mbps WiFi at all!

[CoreyJF]

802.11 (a,g) are at the 54 mbps range but I haven't seen any drivers for them yet.

[Janak Parekh]

... and you won't see drivers for those on Pocket PCs - the 802.11(a|g) cards are Cardbus, and as such won't work on any existing Pocket PC, which only take the older 16-bit PC cards.

--janak

[hulksmash]

Yes, 802.11 g is the same speed as 802.11a -- 54Mbs. What's nice about 802.11 g is that it will work on a 802.11 b network but at the lower speed of 11 Mbs. Does anyone know if a 802.11 g notebook card will work at the advertised 22 Mbs sustained rate on a network utilizing the new TI chips that are contained in the D-link routers and access points? Just curious since my D-link network effectively runs at 17 Mbs, and I was wondering if I could max the throughput at 22 until the 802.11 g access points become available. Best Buy currently has the 802.11 g notebook cards for purchase in-store by Linksys but not the access points. 802.11 g is also CHEAPER than 802.11 a I believe, and is effectively driving the price down on 802.11 a and also forcing them to market 802.11 a access points that also work with 802.11 b cards.

[CoreyJF]

... and you won't see drivers for those on Pocket PCs - the 802.11(a|g) cards are Cardbus, and as such won't work on any existing Pocket PC, which only take the older 16-bit PC cards.

--janak

I don't know enough about it, but I don't understand why a toshiba couldn't handle a usb wifi adapter

[jeffdiogenes]

Just curious since my D-link network effectively runs at 17 Mbs, and I was wondering if I could max the throughput at 22 until the 802.11 g access points become available.

I began testing this with my own 22Mbs D-Link hardware (AP + Laptop Card) until my friend pointed out the most obviousanswer for how they are doing this, which i didn't think of right away. D-Link is just taking the 11 standard and compressing it. Roughly double the speed? No probably not, more like what you are getting now - 17....

I never finished running my tests either though....

You can try your tests with a plain text file and a compressed file and see if the "speed" changes between them...

[Ekkie Tepsupornchai]

You can try your tests with a plain text file and a compressed file and see if the "speed" changes between them...
Yeah, large text files or Word files will compress quite a bit. Take a large JPG or any large ZIP file and send it over and you'll see compression disappear to nearly 0%.

[Janak Parekh]

I don't know enough about it, but I don't understand why a toshiba couldn't handle a usb wifi adapter
Hmm, that's not a bad point. Of course, it'll be a bulky solution and the utility of the whole setup is debatable -- unless you have USB 2, you're going to get no improvement because USB 1.1 is limited to 12mbps.

--janak

[daS]

When I tested the iPAQ 3750 with a Cisco Wi-Fi PC Card I could barely get more than 1Mbps with the Pocket PC. So the higher power requirements of an 802.11g or 802.11a card would just be a waste since no current Pocket PC could even keep up with the full 11Mbps of 802.11b.