PC Magazine special issue on Wireless

[YeOldeStonecat]

This past week, received a "Special Edition Fall 2003" of PC Magazine, all on Wireless. Called "Your Essential Guide to the Unwired World".

If you don't receive their subscription, and dabble in wireless, try to keep an eye out for one at a newstand....it has a lot of hardware reviews, tips, specs, etc.

[Ghosthunter]

Thanks YOSC I will take a look

by any chance did they review Microsoft new G device?

[YeOldeStonecat]

Originally posted by Ghosthunter
by any chance did they review Microsoft new G device?

Disappointingly no GH...was hoping to see it in the mix.

Standard routers,
Belkin
Buffalo
D-Link
Linksys
Netgear
SMC
ZyXEL

Corporate Routers,
Proxim Orinoco
3COM
Sonicwall <===OMG at the long distance performance on that one. Very slow at close distance (only 3.1 megs)...medium distance(still 3.1 megs)...but throughput doesnt drop as the distance increases....as 160 feet is still 3.0 megs, where most either hit a big fat Zero, or barely any transfer. Of course, the laptop PC cards consume twice the juice as other cards...hence the ability to work at distance. Good if you're plugged in....but you'll be cutting laptop battery life in half if you're truely wireless.