built in 802.11g

[Fusion]

i was looking at laptops the other day and i seen the features for a 802.11g. i was wondering if this would have any effect on your 802.11b sence the Q is built in.

[skroo]

i was looking at laptops the other day and i seen the features for a 802.11g. i was wondering if this would have any effect on your 802.11b sence the Q is built in.

802.11g is backwards-compatible with 802.11b, so you shouldn't see any problems with using a g card on a b network.

802.11b clients on an 802.11g AP, however, may prevent the 802.11g clients from operating at speeds higher than around 24Mbit due to differences in frame timing. See this article for details.

[bascule]

Fortunately most 802.11g APs have an option to disable 802.11b operation entirely

[skroo]

Fortunately most 802.11g APs have an option to disable 802.11b operation entirely

Yep, which is A Good Thing. Unfortunately, it'll only be useful up to the point where 802.11g becomes the dominant standard - I found in my b-to-g upgrade process that 802.11g equipment was actually becoming cheaper than the 802.11b gear, particularly if rebates were involved. Make it cheaper and backwards-compatible and peple will adopt it.

Of course, if you have, say, pre-PCCARD laptops, you pretty much have to run both. As far as I'm aware, there are no PCMCIA 802.11g adapters available so you'll be stuck having to run a mixed b/g mode network.