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The apparatuses of YOU. S. Robotics came to take just too late within part at our recent guide about thread lynx devices. Nonetheless there is to be let come a good reason they now source at bid, for the PC Card, PCI-card and the Access Point scream us of on their box the puzzling terms '22 Mbps' through.

Now gets the classic 802.11b WiFi-stan-daard at most 11 Mbps; remain us the question how YOU. S. Robotics that speeds have doubled and - especially - whether in practice also so works.

Firstly a stiff theory. You. S. Robotics has its 22-Mbps technology to thank at chips of Texas Instruments, that at one square complete 802.11b-compatibel be, but source - within the 2,4-GHz spectrum - a double speed and until 70 per cent better cover give.

The technology offers availed is further 256-WEP-encryption and MAC-address authentificatie - the product thus also a to pieces safer. For all clarity, these possibilities as you are only available lays a network between YOU. S. Robotics-products and not in combination with other WiFi-apparatuses.

Test bank story
We install the PC Card and the Access Point on a notebook with Windows XP. The installation lapses immaculately - in not small extent because we a few weeks ago approximately twenty of that placings working might get. The errand remains really that you for a wireless network about a minimal technical background must see to.

The interface of the software that YOU. S. Robotics meelevert, is as source simple as well-organized. What we especially want to know, is or these 22-Mbps products also real better works. We start with a transferratiotest, by which we 1,000 truces for a total of 500 MB copy. We work by 100 per cent signal strength and use to check DU Meter the real transferspeed.