On Jul 8, 7:40, James Rice wrote:
> In our experience, wireless is fine for casual internet connections,
> thin clients (terminal services, citrix, rdp) but much too slow for
> anything that involves any level of data transfer.
I agree with that. And I agree with Christopher's observation that
it's good in proptected buildings; we use it for that too.
> I use wireless 802.11g at home for my kids and wifes internet
> connections. All of my Unix boxes are wired.
Much the same here.
> Christopher McNabb wrote:
>
> >Interesting, because we have LOTS of wireless here at Virginia Tech
> >and oh yeah, it works fine. I'm on a wireless connenction right
now.
But shared with whom, doing what, at what range?
> >I think that wireless installations that are slow and/or unreliable
> >probably have configuration issues or interference from other
sources.
Not necessarily. You won't notice a problem if you use it to read your
email, even sharing it with a few other users. When you start doing
more serious stuff, the throughput, something like 1-10Mbps shared
under optimum conditions for 11g, is very low compared to wired
networks, eg 100Mbps switched per port on a Gigabit backbone (which is
what most of the campus is).
--
Pete Peter Turnbull
Network Manager
University of York
Received on Thu Jul 08 2004 - 15:26:38 BST