802.11g networks will afford slower access

WIRELESS NETWORK ACCESS at this CeBIT is problematic. Various vendors attempted to create wi-fi access but as one wight confessed at the AMD stand to the INQUIRER: "The fact is there are too many machines up and running, interfering across all bandwidths."

This can be a problem with radio frequencies, we learnt earlier in life, but now there are all sorts of standards up and coming such as 802.11g -- as yet unratified - life will be just one "bowl of cherries", right?

Wrong.

Any corporation attempting to implement 802.11g across its network faces an unpalatable fact, which probably explains why Intel hasn't yet jumped on this particular bandwidthwagon.

802.11a, as our own Tony Dennis explained earlier today, is a different kettle of fish.

Every single card at the higher bandwidth will drop down to 802.11b speed, if there's one single card on the wi-fi network that is 802.11b compliant.

Therefore destroying the perceived advantages and rendering corporate plans for this kind of network not null and void, but oddly similar to 802.11b.

In terms of bandwidth. It's what we computing experts term "a glitch".