Confusion about 108MBPS G?

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108mbs is not part of the 802.11g standard. It is proprietory methods by diffferent manufacturers. ALthough it should be 802.11g compliant meaning that it should work at the speeds specified by 802.11g and compatible with 802.11b speeds. I dont think the WI-FI alliance does any interoperability testing at 108mbs because it is not a standard, so your best bet is to go with the same brand gear.

This is the way I understand it. There are officially recognized standards called 802.11a/b/g plus a couple others:

Two big consumer wireless chipmakers (Atheros and Broadcom) have extended the 802.11g standards with their own proprietary wireless protocols to achieve faster data transfer rates. Atheros calls their extension "Super G", Broadcom calls their extension "125 High Speed Mode." However, both extensions maintain compatibility with 802.11g:

Atheros -

- Atheros and Broadcom sell their chips to networking companies like Netgear, Linksys, DLink, etc. Netgear sticks with Atheros chipsets, Linksys sticks with Broadcom chipsets. These companies are free to rename the extensions, so we have "108Mbps" (Netgear), "Speedbooster" (Linksys) and others.

So if you want to try to achieve these higher speeds (which is quite difficult in real life), it's necessary to stick with one chipset manufacturer. In a practical sense, this means sticking with one consumer-level company like Netgear or Linksys or Dlink or...

Lance

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Al Puzzuoli thought carefully and wrote on 12/26/2004 10:51 PM:

As far as I know there is Super G, and there is Pre-N(mimo). N I think is the new standard that cannot be used yet until its ratified. Pre N is looking better than Super G. However it depends how urgently you want it. If you can wait however many months it is until the N protocol is ratified and N products appear then fine, if you can't and want 108mbps now, MIMO imho (pre-n) looks better than Super G, certainly in my experience. Better signal quality, and longer range. Though whether their quoted ranges are accurate or not I don't know. As for your speed booster link sys I'm afraid I don't know much about it. I would guess you need to stick to the same technology all round whether that be pre-n, super g or speed booster to get the full

108mbps as the implementations of 108mbps will be different.

Daniel

108mbps, although doesn't appear to be a standard, you can obtain such

speeds with at least two different brands. The Netgear WG511T notebook

card attains such speeds in conjunction with the Netgear WGR624 as well

as D-Link's DI-624 and DWL-2100AP. I've tried various notebook cards,

but the Netgear WG511T stands out.

Lance wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@individual.net:

Supporting Lance's view:

The various vendors are breaking ranks to introduce go-faster features that differentiate their products and lock users into their brand.

My advice is to not be taken in, stick with the WiFi ratified standards.