G'day Bob

16 May 04 09:46, Bob Lawrence wrote to David Drummond:

 DD>> Cabled networks are rated at 10Mbps, 100Mbps or 1000Mbps.

 DD>> Wireless are "up to 11Mbps, up to 22Mbps and the newest one is
 DD>> up to 54Mbps". Actual effective throughput is somewhat less
 DD>> than the rated speed. 

 BL>  I wonder why? There's no technical reason that UHF can't carry 100
 BL> MHz bandwidth. What's the bandwidth of USB?

The throughput of usb is 1.1Mbps.

The wireless NETWORK link has to deal with power limits vs distance, and
overheads to combat interference?
[...]
 BL>  Yair... I know. My 486 and Win311 was perfectly adequate... but to
 BL> go 32-bit I had to upgrade. We're close to the end now, with 400MHz
 BL> bus and 80Gb hard drives. 

80Gb hard drives "near the end"? Much larger ones are easily
obtainable already.

Regards,
David

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