Latency

[firedraggon]

Does anyone know what the latencies between a host and a client using 802.11a and 802.11b? My target would be intranet gaming.

[disque71]

802.11b - 10mb/s or for gamers 10000kb/s
802.11a - 54mb/s or 54000kb/s

Essentially, 802.11 will give all of your band with as long as you don’t have a lot of metal in your household. If you are on cable, which you probably are, you will experience no lag if you currently experience no lag with your current connection. I don’t think you will have a problem with Wi Fi. You would only need 802.11b , but if you have DS3 or T1 you might want to consider 802.11a.

I hope you find this helpful!

[firedraggon]

Thanks for the bandwidth information. Some of the hardware, which I have read about, documents their bandwidth very well.

I mislead you that I needed the information for online gaming. I still need to locate latency information on 802.11a for a consumer product under development.

I think I might have to buy an 802.11a system and load it to see if the latencies are acceptable.