anything better than wireless G in the works ?

[rh71]

I have the luxury of 100Mbits throughout my house because there are lan drops all over, but it's obviously all wired. I'm not so eager to jump on 802.11g because it only goes up to 54Mbps and I'd have to spend at least $250 to do it in parts.

Is there anything forthcoming I should hold out for ? Whatever it is, how soon will it get here ?

I guess a derivation to this would be - how soon would it get here so wireless G can drop in price if I decide to settle for it ?

 

[JackMDS]

LOL.

The 802.11g is just out of the door and still limping.

The next take will be 802.11i

Security and stability will more emphasized rather than speed.

 

[Goosemaster]

It seems like oyu aren't desperate so you best wait...

802.11g is a mess right now....

802.11b is fantastic but sort of slow....extremely slow if you are transfering GB's of on a regualr basis...

802.11i and 802.11e are something to wait for....



If you really want something NOW, i'd recommend 802.11b beceause it is a tried and true standar. I'd get an Orinoco AP-500 Wireless Access Point or something similar as it offers the best quality.

The AP-200 are really cheap.


Then again, for simplicity a Linksys will do....

 

[AEB]

get POWERLINE/WIrelss combo from siemens its the best. powerline goes 3mbps faster than 802.11b, but you have the option of using both! and i noticed you didnt mention 802.11a goose, it has a longer range and a 5 GHZ frequency

 

[Soybomb]

802.11a goose, it has a longer range and a 5 GHZ frequency

Actually since its higher frequency it has less range than the 2.4 gig stuff.

What are you going to be doing? If you've got a desktop or you're going to be transfering large files than wired still makes the most sense. If you've got a laptop and surf alot, you can't beat having some form of wireless on it. I'd buy something cheap just to have because you can wait for ever because theres always something better in the works.

 

[rh71]

Thanx for the responses. Well I was told that I can still use the hardwire ports (connecting to my LAN drops) on a wireless router @ 100Mbps ... is this true ? Is it just the wireless that goes up to 54Mbps?

What are the problems with G right now? Is it all security? Is it getting dropped ? I do have a laptop that I'd like to take out to the backyard since I work from home... that's why I'm looking into options. Gracias.

 

[rw120555]

I have both wired and wireless (802.11b). The wireless is great for moving a laptop around, like you want. 802.11b is plenty fast for internet sharing, printing, limited file sharing. If I were to upgrade from b to g, I don't think I would even notice a difference 99% of the time. When I want to transfer huge amounts of files between machines, I plug my laptop into a wired connection. Given how you describe your needs, I suspect all you need is a wireless access point (not router, since it sounds like you already have a router) and a wireless card for your notebook.

The one potential gotcha with wireless is reception. But, since you've got a wired backbone, that will give you great flexiblity in placing your WAP, and if necessary you could buy more than one. You'd probably only want to consider powerline if you needed even more flexibility than that, but I doubt that you would. And, powerline will limit you to 802.11b, it is too slow for g.

 

[AEB]

right ur soybomb, but nothing beats powerline/wired/wireless combo;s!

 

[h0mi]

Gotta love this post, it kind of confirms what I thought I should do about a dilemna I've got.

My sister urged(s) me to go wireless because I've got a mess of wires trailing from the living room to my bedroom. Ok only 1 wire- coax cable, and a mess of wires in the bedroom because my cable modem and computer(soon to be computers when I get my gaming rig upgraded) are connected via regular ethernet cable (and a router of course).

So many choices and options... yet with an nforce 2 Asus Deluxe MB out there, it's also a lot of money to spend on equipment that isn't really needed; I have 2 Nics, what do I need a 3rd for? So what I intended to do was this:

Keep the cable modem in the living room, get a wireless router for the living room. Buy a wireless bridge for the bedroom, and connect the bridge to a switch I have, connecting the bedroom computers via wired ethernet. But then I checked out the costs of those bridges ... eesh.

Anyway, I'm concerned about the lack of security with 801.11b/a/g networks, and the ability of people to connect to any gateways I'd establish in my house. I'd also love to be able to connect an appropriate antenna to my computer, stick it out the window and attempt to find/connect to any wireless lans that would allow me- the pringles can hack and assorted other antennas seem to suggest that what I'm thinking of isn't as impossible as it seems, but it does mean getting the right equipment (and what that means, I don't yet know.) I don't have a laptop yet or a newer PDA so I'd be stuck with desktop solutions for the time being. (and I don't include USB nics unless they were 2.0 to be adequate solutions).

So anyway my final decision- wait for WLAN/Wifi to mature a bit. I won't need it until I get a ps2/xbox or a laptop, because only then will I have computers in different rooms and need wireless LAN.

 

[freegeeks]

I have a 802.11G setup.

One advice - wait a bit. I had all sort of performance problems between my 802.11g AP and my 802.11b wireless ethernet bridge (connected on my x-box). When I contacted Linksys about it they confirmed the problems and they said they were working on a new firmware. The catch is that they could not guarantee that the future firmware would work with the existing hardware in my AP. I bought my AP when 802.11g was not yet an official standard so I am pretty much b*ttf*cked. The 802.11g card in my lappy is working OK. When you do some research you will find some horror stories about compatibility problems between 802.11g and 802.11b hardware.