802.11G : From Draft to Standard Firmware Upgrade?
So when the IEEE finally passes 802.11G as a standard it may see a few revisions....do you guys expect that the Airport Extreme hardware can have its firmware flashed to correct for those revisions? Everyone knows that this was an early-adopter move by Apple, I'm just curious as to how big a deal this is....especially since there are some industry wags who are saying that 802.11a will be the ultimate victor in this particular little fight. I think that rev. b is pretty damned well established now and that other vendors/users would want to go with rev. g because of its backwards compatibility. I personally don't expect for there to be an overnight switch to 802.11G by hot spots around the world, but it would be an embarassing gaffe for Apple if things go kablooey here.
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Is there something about the 5Ghz band that would mak it better suited to swathing large areas (roadways etc) with a signal?
Anyone?
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I linked to the discussion thread, but the link to the article in question is above it.
The bottom line of the article is that every company wanted to be first to market so that their own version of 802.11g became the "standard". Whatever the IEEE decides, someone's gonna be SOL.
With all the existing hotspots being b, why woudl you choose to use a? It would not be compatible with any existing hotspots, so youcould only connect ot new ones. Seems stupid to me...