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**Note: Sorry if this is the wrong area for this..**
I saw the article on the front about Wi-Fi G, and at first it looked good, but then i noticed some major flaws.
For one, G is not unoffical. It was ratified earlier this year, and is now and offical standard. Most companies have new firmware to update the draft equipment to offical standards.
However, the big problem comes from... everything else. The article rules that G is not a very good standard. The issue is though, is that not nearly enough was actually tested.
The review only touches Belkin hardware. It would be fine to rule that belkin hardware is not up to snuff, but saying that ALL g performs below standard is asisnine. Also, if you take a look at the raw data, you will see that somewhere, there must have been a problem. No equipment should only achieve half speed when less than a foot. The thing is, there may have been lots of other noise present (but unknown with no SNR readings), or it could have just been set up wrong.
As for the reivew mentioning speaking to other retailers.... why even include that? It is nothing more than useless hear-say.
Regardless, even if the belkin was indicitave of the current state of hardware (which it isnt), no mention was made about the other improvements over the other standards. When compaired to A, it does have a far greater range. When compaired the B, it has much better security.
Finally, i gotta talk about the comments on useful speed. Evactly what movie did you try streaming that wouldnt work with 1MB/s? As a 1.5Mb user, i can say that i have never had a problem surfing and streaming anything, and i only have 210KB/s.
Anyway, take it as you will.. thanks. : peace2:
I saw the article on the front about Wi-Fi G, and at first it looked good, but then i noticed some major flaws.
For one, G is not unoffical. It was ratified earlier this year, and is now and offical standard. Most companies have new firmware to update the draft equipment to offical standards.
However, the big problem comes from... everything else. The article rules that G is not a very good standard. The issue is though, is that not nearly enough was actually tested.
The review only touches Belkin hardware. It would be fine to rule that belkin hardware is not up to snuff, but saying that ALL g performs below standard is asisnine. Also, if you take a look at the raw data, you will see that somewhere, there must have been a problem. No equipment should only achieve half speed when less than a foot. The thing is, there may have been lots of other noise present (but unknown with no SNR readings), or it could have just been set up wrong.
As for the reivew mentioning speaking to other retailers.... why even include that? It is nothing more than useless hear-say.
Regardless, even if the belkin was indicitave of the current state of hardware (which it isnt), no mention was made about the other improvements over the other standards. When compaired to A, it does have a far greater range. When compaired the B, it has much better security.
Finally, i gotta talk about the comments on useful speed. Evactly what movie did you try streaming that wouldnt work with 1MB/s? As a 1.5Mb user, i can say that i have never had a problem surfing and streaming anything, and i only have 210KB/s.
Anyway, take it as you will.. thanks. : peace2:
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