I have to laugh everytime someone suggests G because it's faster.
Here's the way I see it.
Yeah, I can talk over the network at 100 Mbps, but I don't need that. I need to be able to talk over the net as fast as I can go.
Now, I have DSL and Cable.
DSL is 3 Mbps down and 384 kbps (0.384 Mbps) up. Let's think about this. A 802.11b is 11 Mbps transfer up and down, and a 802.11g is 54 Mbps up and down. Wait, 11 Mbps would cover my connection with room to spare.
Cable is 4 Mbps down and 384 kbps up. Still, not enough to merit a 802.11g.
B (802.11b) is compatible with G (802.11g), so if you have B and you go somewhere that has G, you can jack in to their net.
What I have done is I have taken my DSL and Cable, bought seperate routers for each. ($60 x 2). I have 2 PCMCIA cards for my laptops, Wireless PCIs for 2 desktops, and one desktop is hardlined.
I set my systems to run on cable (what I'm paying out the ass for), and in the event I lose connection to comcast, I switch over to sbc global, no downtime (except for the desktop that's hardwired to comcast, and all that would take is moving the plug from one router to the other -- they're stacked).
If I'm out both SBC and Comcast, I take the day off. Hasn't happened yet.
