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wireless LAN products (54M bit/sec, 24-GHz frequency) from coming to market. We obtained seven prestandard access points and put them thr ough their paces. This gear is pointed largely toward home and small bus iness markets, and the product features show it.
Buffalo 's products hit our doors first - and, like many of the participants, th e company followed up with several CDs or fat firmware files worth of re visions in the three months after products were released.
The D-Link DI-624 and Belkin's 54g products win our Blue Ribbon Award - B elkin's installation, management and performance were very good, and in terms of raw performance, D-Link's DI-624 was positively blazing - outdi stancing the competition. But are any of these products ready for production deployment? All these products are upgradeable, but it's difficult to tell how the changes will affect performance.
Some access points were more sensitive to fallback data rates and might be perceived as slower as a result. Mixed mode performance drops are typical and part of the draft standar d This effect likely will continue to change until stabilized under the final standard when it is agreed on in the early summer. Because of the expected changes that will take place in the standard, speeds are likel y to change when subsequent firmware arrives for each access point. D-Link's DI-624 had the largest range (344 feet), and Buffalo's gear had the smallest radio range (about 213 feet) before signals degraded to uselessness.
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