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Supplementary Question (clarification)
Authored by: willbank on Aug 01, '03 04:54:52AM

That seems to be a neat bridging solution - but... it seems that you opened up one of the 2 extreme base stations (the ends of the bridge) to DHCP for use by laptop users as you state...

Surely then, if someone were to come to your office with an 802.11b wireless card and connect they would 'throttle back' the whole system (by making one extreme base station operate in 'b' mode and not 'g' in order to be compatible with this new wireless client) and suddenly your snazzy 51Mbps bridge would become 11Mbps as the other end of the bridge defaulted to 11 to comply with its speed-reduced counterpart. (Which might have serious consequences for the large files in transit and the general workflow.)

Or, can extreme base stations communicate with different clients on 'b' and 'g' channels simultaneously?

Good work on the process whatever.

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