I wrote: > What is unclear is what the different power 100 and 400 mW makes in > the obtained range for the Proxim cards. I found the information in: http://www.proxim.com/products/mobility/rl802/8400ds.pdf Where it says that: For the largest possible area coverage, Proxim XR technology boosts radio output power to 400 mW. XR can provide area coverage increases approaching 30% indoors and 100% outdoors. which means from about (100%) 152 to 215 m in an office environment and 305 to 430 m in open environment (with dipole antenna) (700 to 1000 ft). This range is comparable to Wavelan PCMCIA 802.11 but it seems like the WaveLAN card reaches this range with only 100mW transmitted power. It is, however, still unclear when the Proxim card fall backs to 1 Mbit/s and what that makes in range. Another thing which is unclear about the new 11 Mbit/s cards (which seem to not have arrived yet) is their range. According to Harris data on their 11 Mbit/s the range is rather short. Hopefully this means that these cards will have at least the same range as the current ones when they have fall back to a speed of 1-2 Mbit/s. Roland -- Subcription/unsubscription/info requests: send e-mail with subject of "subscribe", "unsubscribe", or "info" toWear-Hard Mailing List Archive (searchable): http://wearables.ml.org
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