Subject: Re: "airport"-friendly wireless networking? To: Peter
Seebach <> From: None <> List: current-users Date: 08/21/2000
04:40:52 >>Note that I have been told there may be some
interoperability issues >>with 802.11 devices. The standard is
complex, and apparently not all >>devices nicely talk to each
other.  I have not experienced this, but >>network design people
at Carnegie Mellon have told me this. >The main thing I've been
told is that some are "frequency hopping" and some >are "digital
spread spectrum".  The Aviator cards, for instance, are the
>former, and the Lucent cards are the latter.          there are
"Frequency hopping (FH)" and "Direct sequence (DS)" cards.
they are not compatible (you can't mix FH and DS).         "man
4 awi" and "man 4 wi" talks about it very much.