certification, WLAN chip makers are already launching speed-focused tweaks. Intersil was first with its "Nitro" technology, but this week Atheros countered by announcing its "Super G" and "Super A/G" enhancements. Nitro is primarily aimed at offsetting the...

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none none LAN 1x (B) Realtek RTL8139/810x 1x (B) Broadcom 10/100/1000 Marvell 88E8053 10/100/1000 (B) WLAN Atheros Super AG (802.11a/b/g) Atheros AR5006X 802.11 a/b/g Atheros 802.11 a/b/g Wireless WAN None None None Audio Connectors Mic (L) Headphone...

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Do Extended-range WLAN technologies deliver?. do extended. Longer range and faster speed are the watchwords for wireless LAN product manufacturers and the criteria by which many of us choose which products to buy. We take a look at three "extended range" WLAN...

with each other as Atheros contends, it's only when both are running full-tilt, and even then, the interference is gone by the time the WLANs are separated by 30 feet - well short of the 100 feet that Atheros has been quoted as saying will be the 11g interference...

and management traffic, or RF Monitoring capability for channel scanning or hopping. It also requires the installation of a special NDIS driver for a supported network driver in order to capture wireless packets. An Atheros WLAN adapter driver is included which...

with a Broadcom-based client also showed little interaction between WLANs. Figure 1: Throughput for Atheros 11g vs GlobespanVirata 11g - 2Mbps streams - 10ft (click on the image for a full-sized view) Figure 2: Lost Data % for Atheros 11g vs GlobespanVirata...