[CyberGreg]

Here's the note from the Apple web page:

(2) Based on IEEE 802.11g draft specification. Data rates greater than 11 Mbps require an AirPort Extreme Base Station, an AirPort Extreme Card, and an AirPort Extreme-ready computer. To achieve maximum speed of 54 Mbps, all users must use AirPort Extreme Cards. Actual speed will vary based on range, connection rate, and other factors.

Notice that it states ALL users must use Airport Extreme cards... so does that mean that if the ABS has to throttle back for just one user (one 802.11b connection) then all connections will be dropped back regardless of potential speed?

Not that it will pose a problem for me, at least not for several months...

[ghporter]

Originally posted by CyberGreg:
so does that mean that if the ABS has to throttle back for just one user (one 802.11b connection) then all connections will be dropped back regardless of potential speed?

I would say "yes" to your question. The spread spectrum technique used in 802.11b is very different from that used in 802.11g ("direct sequence spread spectrum" (DSSS) rather than "orthogonal frequency division multiplexing" (OFDM)), so there's probably a hardware switchover from one system to the other.

[CyberGreg]

Yup... found this on another ABS page;



So it does indeed look like you've got to "switch" it to only allow 802.11g