Subject: Re: driver for webgear aviator 2.4 card
To: Mike Cheponis <mac@Wireless.Com>
From: Lennart Augustsson <lennart@augustsson.net>
List: tech-kern
Date: 01/24/2000 22:27:52
Mike Cheponis wrote:

> Normally, Frequency Hopping (FH) and Direct Sequence (DS) types of Spread
> Spectrum are both called "CDMA" - so much so that "Code Division, Multiple
> Access" essentially means "Spread Spectrum" these days.

I think using CDMA to describe FH is confusing, but who am I to tell...


> > AirPort uses direct sequence, so Aviator cards can't talk to them.
>
> That's right.
>
> There are pretty much two competing standards: 2 Mb/s DS from Lucent and
> FH from everybody else.

The AirPort is 11Mb/s.


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        -- Lennart