--On Tuesday, 05 August, 2008 13:38 +0200 Iljitsch van Beijnum <iljitsch@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >... >> As it is fully IEEE standards compliant and some kind of >> industry standard (whatever this means) many people expect to >> be able to use it at an IETF standards meeting. > > What are the limitations of such a machine? > > A year ago I replaced a four-year-old laptop that came with > 802.11g built in. I don't think it would be unreasonable to > turn off 802.11b support by now and set the multicast speed to > 6 Mbps or more in order to make the 2.4 GHz band more usable. With the understanding that I don't expect IETF to support either my 900 MHz RoamAbout hardware or the FHSS card I bought some years ago specifically for IETF use, please note that the comment above is yet another way to increase costs to participants. john _______________________________________________ Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf