On Sunday 12 December 2004 03:41, Harshal Vaidya wrote:

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Most laptops here are sold with wifi 11b standards which are slow and outdated. Only toshiba and zenith have wifi 11g. That is almost 6 times faster and is now the standard in all laptops in western markets.

11b has a throughput of 11mbps which is more than enough for any broadband service which is operating in India currently. Moreover all 11g devices (of what I know) are all backward compatible to 11b.

All the wireless "standards" are pathetic. Very high latency, and low bandwidth utilisation with even moderate number of users connected or distance beyond 25 mtrs (i have done some bit of testing). I prefer to carry a cross & straight cable any day (most offices have a lan point within reach). The 11G thingy is anything but standard for now. Wireless lan is great for experiments with mobile voice apps etc.- not daily use. Me thinks it will be 2 yrs before wireless lans become reliable and useful.By then the current crop of peripherals will be hazardous pollutants. However 11g on a point to point link over a distance of a few kilometers is very good - 4 to 24 Mbps.