A deep dive into why Wi-Fi kind of sucks
What's going on in this article? Is it the author speaking about having bad hardware and configuration?<p>> In real life, if you had your devices close enough to each other and to the access point, about the best you could reasonably expect [with 802.11b] was 1 Mbps—about 125 KB/sec.<p>I used 802.11b a lot. In a non crowded situation reaching ~5.5mbit was not a problem at all. I remember seeing transfer speeds of about 700KB/s.<p>Why the author ignores the theoretical top speed which is something around ~60% of 11mbit is beyond me.<p>Then the author continues with the same thing again;<p>>your best case scenario [with 802.11g] tended to be about a tenth of that—5 Mbps or so<p>This again is not true. In a non crowded situation I had no issues reaching 2-3MB/s, which is closer to the theoretical limits of 802.11g after factoring in some signal loss.<p>Surely, today when everybody is having wifi you would probably not reach 700KB/s on 802.11b or 3MB/s on 802.11g, but back when it began it was actually feasible.