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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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Wireless Networks Will Go Farther

Another aspect that is improving all the time with wireless networks is the range of wireless equipment. Most of the wireless routers claim that the usable distance is about 150 feet (for B, G, and A networks), but this is rarely achieved except in lab environments without obstructions such as floors or walls between the router and the computer. In the real world, the range is quite a bit less than that, and signal strength at that range is so low that the speed would noticeably drop. Even worse, the power drain would suck your laptop battery dry in no time.

The good news here is that the range is getting much better, and will continue to do so as more improvements come along, such as the 802.11n standard. The ...

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