In case you are planning to buy wireless PCI/USB

[William Park]

On Wed, Dec 21, 2005 at 04:51:13PM -0500, Taavi Burns wrote:
> On 12/21/05, William Park <opengeometry-FFYn/CNdgSA at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> > I just joined the wireless revolution, and I'm not impressed.
> > I bought
> >     - Airlink AWLH3026 PCI -- Ralink 2561 chip
> >     - Airlink AWLL3026 USB -- ZyDAS 1211 chip (cheap clipped on plastic case)
> >
> > Manufacturer changed the chipset on me.  So, what I got wasn't what
> > others reported, and it took some time/effort before I could locate
> > source-code drivers.  Anyways, it's kind of cool to see USB key booting
> > off, and doing X-terminal session through USB wireless. :-)
> >
> > But, I'm getting only 11Mbit (802.11b), when both end of Ad-Hoc wireless
> > is 54Mbit (802.11g).  They're bloody 2m apart!
> 
> Are the wireless device and USB port USB1.1 or USB2.0?  USB1.1 has a
> maximum throughput of 12Mbps.  If they're both USB2.0, but a USB1.1
> device is hooked up to the same bus as a USB2.0 device then it's also
> possible that the 1.1 device could interfere with the maximum
> bandwidth available.

One end is the above PCI card.  The other end is the above USB 2.0
stick.  Both are 802.11b/g.  Maybe it's just factory default, and I
probably have to set some registers.

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