Re: wireless ethernet? (was: RE: Firewire)

["alex" <telecomt-at-tht.net>]

In this case I agree - it was not a very bright idea of mine.
Lets better do it with the fiber.
Alex
----- Original Message ----- 
From: Markus Meyer <meyer-at-mesw.de>
To: Multiple recipients of list <emc-at-nist.gov>
Sent: Monday, January 13, 2003 4:15 PM
Subject: wireless ethernet? (was: RE: Firewire)


> 
> Alex,
> 
> speaking about wireless ethernet (meaning 802.* standards these days) I
> have to say that my experiences have been bad. Even in an office
> environment, the speed of wireless ethernet is far from comparable to
> the traditional one that uses cables. And in an industrial environment,
> where there is lots of electromagnetic noise this would be even worse, I
> suppose. Also, provided you use only two network cards and one single
> cable between them, ethernet is fairly deterministic in terms of maximum
> packet delivery times. This isn't the case with wireless ethernet where
> the connection can always be interrupted for an indefinite amount of
> time because of external interference.
> 
> 
> Markus
> 
> > I agree - it may be a bad choice for this application.
> > On the other hand, it runs at approx. 2 ghz -  near 
> > microwave. Also, running TCP, it will retransmit  - there 
> > won't be any lost packets, remember what TCP IP was conceived 
> > for? I'm sure that people who designed wireless also made it 
> > very robust, so who knows, it may perform better then the 
> > wired one, since the length of the wire may pick up lots of 
> > EMF. This is just a suggestion, never tried it. Alex
>