Today we'll continue our series looking at four of the transmission options for Wi-Fi wireless LANs by looking at IEEE 802.11g. This is the most commonly found Wi-Fi transmission rate today. As I prepared this snack for posting, I realized that Mark made some references in it to the older IEEE 802.11a standard, which you haven't seen yet. I elected to start with 802.11b and 802.11g because they are the most relevant of the four. However, we'll fill in the missing piece and look at 802.11a tomorrow. Although there are several technical differences between 802.11b and 802.11g, the most important one to most users is speed: 802.11g has a raw upper transmission rate of 54 Mbps and remains backwards compatible with 802.11b. Mark explains it to you in today's snack!

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