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To: manta8 who wrote (111)	8/30/2000 5:26:48 PM
From: ScamSeeker	Respond to of 381

Watching streaming video through a wireless LAN is old hat. I have personally watched Bloomberg TV on my Apple Powerbook using Apple's 802.11 Wireless Airport product and QuickTime streaming. The only difference is that Airport runs at 11 Mbps while SWOMI only claims 2Mbps. Much better video quality with the Apple product due to additional bandwidth. BTW. Satellite DSS MPEG1 video streaming rate is only 1.5Mbit/s. And that looks pretty good IMO. I think once you get past a few Mbit/s of bandwidth, the video quality is perfectly acceptable. FYI.. DVD video requires 4Mbit/s of bandwidth (and that is almost as good as you're going to get) And secondly, Apple's Airport is based on Lucent's Wavelan product.

To: manta8 who wrote (111)	8/31/2000 11:17:35 AM
From: Jorj X Mckie	Respond to of 381

Manta8, I don't know if they are making it up, but even assuming that they are not, it proves nothing. Add one or two users and I guarantee that they would not get the same results. First: 2Mbps is not very fast at all, Second: It is good to think of this type of wireless communications in the same way you would think of an ethernet hub. That is, it is a shared medium and if one user requires 2 Mbps for a broadcast quality video stream, that means that there is no more bandwidth available for other users. JXM