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To: D.J.Smyth who wrote (165328)	5/11/2001 7:56:16 PM
From: rudedog	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 176387

D.J. - At the risk of repeating myself I will point out that I am typing this from a laptop connected to the rest of my gear via an 80211b card. I am about 100 feet from the access point, which is on the other side of the pool, behind a wall in the pool house. I can transfer a 1MB file in about a second. I can call up a 50MB scanned image file in under a minute. All of that says that real world data, in this case the system under my fingers, over a 100 foot range, performance is as fast as 10MB wired ethernet. And what possible relationship is there between LAN bandwidth and a 56K or DSL link to the net? As long as the LAN is significantly faster than the link to the net, the slow link will determine the data rate. A 56K link will deliver actual throughput of maybe 5KB/S on a good day. That implies 200 seconds to transfer a megabyte, which is a lot less than 7 minutes. I do in fact own a 56K modem, and I fired it up and tested it just for you. I can download a 1.2MB file over that modem link in under 5 minutes. My 1.5MB DSL link delivers files off of the web - if the site can deliver, which some can - at over 100KB/S. And I can in fact download 1MB files in about 10 seconds from the web. To any of the machines on my network including a 10 year old 486/25 laptop. I don't know how much more "practical" than that one can get... I can't speak for Intel's Anypoint, but I don't know if that is an 80211b setup, or the "home RF" thing which I have never used. You are actually supporting my point with that speed data. If the pipe into the system is the limiting factor, then almost any PC that can access the link will have virtually the same performance.