what is the maximum data rate of the 802.11a standard?

[masked1]

anyone shed light on this?

thanks

 

[MoFunk]

From what I have been seeing it looks like the max is 54 Mbps.

 

[Tarca]

Originally posted by: MoFunk
From what I have been seeing it looks like the max is 54 Mbps.

Correct.

802.11a = 54 Mbps short distances
802.11b = 10 Mbps long distances
802.11g = 54 Mbps at long distances sort of a merge of the previous 2

You can run in dual channel mode if your eqipment supports if for a total 108 Mbps.

 

[Confused]

Wrong forum, but anyway 🙂

Yep, what Tarca said is correct. The "most secure" system would be 802.11a, as most "wardrivers" would only have 11b/g systems, so are unlikely to be sniffing your traffic 🙂 However, the higher frequency (and subsequentially shorter transmission lengths and wall penetration) also add to this! 😉


Confused

 

[MoFunk]

I do not know about the others but if I remember correctly, the speeds are really skewed because isn't 802.11x half duplex? I know that my home and work 802.11b only truly get a max of 4-5Mbps

 

[ViRGE]

I'm not sure if it's half-duplex or not, but a lot of the slow-down is due to error correction; 802.11b/g send a lot of error correction data to keep things in order.

 

[networkman]

I was just looking at this a couple days ago.. I think it was in a recent issue of Network Computing; It had a list of all the various wireless standards with their specs.

 

[MoFunk]

I use this to look at the true speed of my network. http://www.ixiacom.com/enterprise/Qcheck.php It works great!

 

[masked1]

i thought it was 54mbps

just need some "pros" to confirm it!

thanks all!