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Wireless Home Networking Simplified
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Wireless Home Networking Simplified

by Jim Doherty, Neil Anderson
December 2006
Beginner to intermediate content levelBeginner to intermediate
384 pages
10h 39m
English
Cisco Press
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802.11g

The 802.11g standard was developed in 2003 and borrowed from the best of the two previous standards (A and B). Wireless G offers the speed of the A standard (54 Mbps) but still operates on the unregulated 2.4-GHz frequency band, which provides the cost and range benefits of the B standard. Since its inception, the G standard has proven to be very popular and is very quickly replacing the B standard. The equipment cost for this standard is a bit more than for the B standard but less than for the A standard. The G standard is starting to become widely available in hotspots, and many computers that come with built-in wireless capabilities (which is most of them these days) come with G capability. This standard is also backward compatible ...

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