Henry wrote:
> Finalisation of 802.11n is still reportedly over a year away. There is
> of course no guarantee (actually, little likelihood) that any of the
> draft-n gear available now will be upgradable to the standard, when it
> comes.
>
> The conventional wisdom for using draft-n equipment at the moment is to
> get all the pieces from the same manufacturer, to make sure they work
> together as intended. But that's not always possible.
>
> Have any of the computer or networking magazines, or any of the
> consumer-protection testing labs, run any studies comparing how well (or
> how poorly) 'mixed' environment networks run? Things like 'The A pcmcia
> card works with B's router but not C's access point, while D's pci
> adapter works with routers from A and C but not B', etc., etc.
>
> Given that there are only, what?, four or five or six major
> manufacturers of consumer- and SOHO-level equipment, it shouldn't be too
> hard to put the more popular models through their paces.
>
> cheers,
>
> Henry
I gather you have no faith in the "Wi-Fi Alliance".
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