WiFi Woes With .11g

[Ioman]

The Register has an article on the incompatibility between .11g and .11b across differing unnamed vendors due to premature roll-outs. The part which really hurts is the suggestion that if there's a .11b participant to your .11g network then either it gets ignored or the network reverts to .11b status. Anyone tried this yet with their new Powermacs?" As the article points out, this is most likely due to the fact that .11g hasn't really even been set as a *standard* yet, so incompatibility is to be expected. I just hope vendors get really good with flash updates.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/59/29250.html

This scares me becuase I am/was planning on buying an 802.11g network this week.

[RageSlave]

Wait and get a stable setup in a package. trans and recv. bundled to work together. You'll probably be much happier.

[Ioman]

Originally posted by RageSlave
Wait and get a stable setup in a package. trans and recv. bundled to work together. You'll probably be much happier.

Or if you just stick with a single brand, then your chances of it being backwards compatible with the .b standard of the same brand are pretty high too.

[llbbl]

Originally posted by Ioman


Or if you just stick with a single brand, then your chances of it being backwards compatible with the .b standard of the same brand are pretty high too.

You could always sell it on half.com if it doesn't work out for you. Maybe the company will exhcange it for a working version when the standard has been finialized.