re: Centrino Adds A, Not GGood article. Warms the heart to watch those folks at INTC work their magic. Is it just me, or is the matching of 802.11 a & b a little odd? I mean, the only people I know running 802.11a work in the ailses of large warehouses or retailers. Doesn't putting b&g together on the ol' centrino make more sense?
re: Centrino Adds A, Not GIt all depends. The big advantage of 11a is that it is using "new" spectrum and so should, in the long run, give you better performance since the interference will be lower.
Then again, 11a is no use in a PC if most access points are 11b/11g
Funny thing is, if Intel have made both basebands that is, low rate (11b) and high rate (11a and 11g are basically the same thing), and both radios (2.4 and 5 GHz) why not target a triple mode device (11a,b+g)? Anyone got any good idea of the increase in complexity to go from 11a+b > 11a,b+g ?? Surely this is an easier migration path than 11b+g > 11a,b+g?
re: Centrino Adds A, Not GWell they don't have a home-grown 2.4GHz (b/g) radio yet, but from what I understand once you have the 2.4GHz radio and the 5GHz radio for a/b, plus the associated MAC & baseband controller silicon, it shouldn't take long to develop an a/b/g chip.
re: Centrino Adds A, Not GIn theory any G chip should be backwards compatible with B. But Intel says it won't be shipping in volume with G til next year.
Then again, 11a is no use in a PC if most access points are 11b/11g
Funny thing is, if Intel have made both basebands that is, low rate (11b) and high rate (11a and 11g are basically the same thing), and both radios (2.4 and 5 GHz) why not target a triple mode device (11a,b+g)? Anyone got any good idea of the increase in complexity to go from 11a+b > 11a,b+g ?? Surely this is an easier migration path than 11b+g > 11a,b+g?
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