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by songoku_zzz

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hello! :) the situation is, i'm planning to put more than 1 access points and connect them to a switch. 1 have 3 questions:

1) If the signal from access point(s) overlaps, how will a nic decide which one to choose?

2) For indoor environment, how is the performance of 802.11b in terms of data rate and range?

3) will there be any noticable difference if i installed a high gain antenna? and if there is, will it worth the cost?

pardon me for this newbie question :) thanks in advance :)

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by lmon

1) The adapter will connect with the one that has the stronger signal unless specifically told to only connect to a specific network (ssid).

2)802.11b is the slowest in speed supposedly 11mpbs without encryptioni if you enable encryption it may drop to half. The distance is about 150 feet radius in open area add walls it may drop significantly.

3)There might be an increase in distace\speed. It may be worth it if it eliminates\reduces the amount of ap needed for your systems to get a good signal when connected.

You may wanna look into getting the 802.11g it is faster than b 54mbps and has the same reach as b.

Here is a link just case:

http://compnetworking.about.com/cs/wireless80211/a/aa80211standard.htm

by songoku_zzz

thanks a lot! anyway, i had to stick with 802.11b as i want it to be wifi compatible. plus i've seen some 802.11g access points throughput drops significantly when b and g users using the line simultaneously. so i think i'd better stick with 802.11b since i'm only connected to the internet at ~314kbps. 802.11b should be sufficient enough, am i not right? thanks again mate! :)

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