802.11g or 54g Draft

[izzy4505]

What is the industry accepted standard? 802.11g or the drafted 54g? You'd think that since IEEE finally approved 802.11g, that everybody would migrate to that. However, because it's slower, I don't see this happening any time soon. Manufactueres are going to want to say that they have the fastest products out there, so they're not going to slow it down to comply with a standard. Especially if the draft standard at the higher speed generally worked fine when dealing with 802.11b equipment [which is the reason for the speed slowdown].

So what should we accept as the standard? We've seen in the past where not accepting standards early on have caused problems. Take for example Novell's IPX on Ethernet.

[uhtu]

hey, there's no option for "whatever came with my laptop" ;-)

[King_Ice_F]

I think that buffalo tech did a very good job of encouraging migration to the IEEE standard. They offered to replace you products for free if they could not be updated to comply with the new standard.

[Guest]

So, you just got 802.11G products from Dlink and you want to enable "Turbo G" mode...well, the bad news is that your solution is Proprietary.
If you're a home user with one or two access points, it shouldn't matter much to you that you are locked into DLink products, but if you're an Enterprise and this will involve 100's of access points, you may want to reconsider that "Turbo Mode" solution!!
Being locked into a single vendor's product line is never a good idea, and if doing this "Turbo Mode" wireless solution then you most likely will be using two wireless channels that will be bonded together to increase the speed (doubling through fdd - frequency division duplexing). While the increased speed is good, it comes with draw backs...using two out of the three non-overlapping channels to get this higher speed will limit your ability to add additional wireless devices to your network.
There are much better articles out there that go into depth on this subject, I'll leave it up to you to find them, but a good starting point is below:
http://www.cwne.com/learning_center/index.html