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Old 11-15-2006, 11:55 PM
John Navas
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Default Re: extending range: torn between "expensive but supposedly safe" and "risky, but cheap and geekishly rewarding"

On Thu, 16 Nov 2006 00:02:19 +0100, hlexa@hotmail.com (Axel
Hammerschmidt) wrote in <1hovbla.4zuktk10nztvkN%hlexa@hotmail.com>:

>John Navas <spamfilter0@navasgroup.com> wrote:
>
>> On Wed, 15 Nov 2006 22:38:23 +0100, hlexa@hotmail.com (Axel
>> Hammerschmidt) wrote in <1hov6zm.e6hqn5odi4owN%hlexa@hotmail.com>:


>> >So two stations, one connected directly to the router and the other
>> >using the repeater, each achieve 13.5 Mbps.

>>
>> No, a repeater turns a maximum 54 Mbps network into a 27 Mbps network
>> for all devices on that network. (Actual speeds will typically be much
>> less.)

>
>They are nominal values. Gives the same result as your numbers.


Depends what you meant by "connected directly to the router", which
I took to be a _wired_ connection. With a single repeater:

* Wireless G to wired network speed is a maximum of 27 Mbps.

* Wireless G to wireless G network speed is a maximum of 13.5 Mbps.

>> Consider a network with access point AP, local wireless device LW,
>> repeater WR, and remote device RW. When LW is talking to AP, WR is
>> still repeating:
>> Packet 1 from LW to AP
>> Repeat of packet 1 by WR
>> Packet 2 from AP to LW
>> Repeat of packet 2 by WR

>
>Why not use 802.11 no men cla ture?


What nomenclature?

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