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07/29/2002 Archived Entry: "Wireless"

Mobile Computing & Wireless LANs

802.11 definition
802.11
802.11a 5 GHz and 6 GHz.
802.11b 11 megabits - Wi-Fi - is backward compatible with 802.11
802.11g 54 megabits per second

Status of Project IEEE 802.11g
Broadband House Magazine: Q & A: 802.11g

Wireless Training Page

IEEE 802.11 Short Tutorial
Wi-Fi.org FAQs
The Source for 802.11 Business and Technology
802.11b/Wi-Fi News: No Last Names, Please
Reiter's Wireless Data Web Log :
Wireless Mostly Harmless
802.11Hotspots.com
Linux & Wireless LANs

Apple - AirPort (IEEE 802.11b wireless)
O'Reilly Network: Recipe for a Linux 802.11b Home Network

Wired on Wireless
Unlike most IEEE standards, 802.11 includes two major physical-layer standards
Direct-Sequence (DS) spread spectrum
Frequency-Hopping (FH) spread spectrum.
Both operate in 83.5 MHz of unlicensed spectrum in the 2.4-GHz band.

O'Reilly Network: An 802.11 ISP on Maine's Rocky Coast