On Nov 13, 2003, at 12:46 PM, Randy Bush wrote:
Actually, no. 802.11a is inherently better for this sort of environment than 802.11b or 802.11g. Instead of having 3 non-overlapping channels, it has 8. Also, being at 5G it doesn't propagate as far as the 2.4G, which for us would be a real win since it would reduce interference even further. Oh, and you get 54M to share rather than 11M to boot :-)Note that getting 802.11a works even better.
until everybody does, and 'everbody' is twice as many people as now
I strongly encourage people to consider bringing 802.11a cards to future meetings! (Note: Of course, now that I've said that, the future hosts will decide against deploying it)
- Jim IETF 58 NOC