Today's world is more concentrating on throwing away there wired content and looking forward to work with wireless. Suddenly so many wireless product's have flooded the market and consumers always wondered which one to pick. As we all know every wireless product is 802.11 b & 802.11G enabled giving an extra amount of compatibility with the legacy wireless networks. There are places like hotels, restaurants, airports, cafe's etc which offer the wireless hot spot connectivity for free either via 802.11b or 11g.

Most people find coverage range as an important feature that gives them the liberty to move around in the office or at home, in the backyard or somewhere nearby home etc. Sometimes bandwidth is a concern on LAN as 54Mbps may not be sufficient for heavy file downloads etc. whatever may be the reasons, there are good products like Airgo Networks Gen3Chip commonly a NetGear's RangeMax 240 or Asus's 240 MIMO lines or Linksys's 802.11 b & g wireless router products. For long range, nobody can beat Airgo based products.

An advice for 802.11b enabled wireless networks is to upgrade as soon as possible as the new products in line might not want to talk to them anymore. It's high time you consider upgrading to get better WPA or WPA2 protection which is far better. If you need wireless security at home or while connected over a Hot Spot running with 802.11b what should you be doing? Protect your PC rather protecting the connection link.

802.11a was the first wireless standard which was reserved for enterprises for the reason that it has less overlapping channels, less interference, more signal strength and a litter expensive as compared to 11b & 11 g. But as the technology advanced to next generation products, everyone is either on 802.11b or 802.11g. Look around and you shall see Wi-Fi networks near to you, in apartments, in cities etc.

It was found that 802.11a running on 5.4 GHz was being running at half the speed its counterparts 11b and 11g were efficiently performing lately. All 802.11a devices got another upgraded firmware from there respective vendors removing this bandwidth cap and restructuring the speed to a flat 54 Mbps. And hence, marking an era of enterprise wide speed and signal strength which still exists and is been researched on to go better anytime. There was news that an 802.11n standard is under observation which works exactly like a 802.11a on 5-GHz frequency.

As far as signal strength is concerned, mark your distance and think you can go as far as you can? Not much with an 802.11b wireless transmission, as it has certain limitations and the maximum distance reachable is almost about 125 feet and that too on a plane surface. If there are walls and doors & windows, the transmission is going to be even less as these thicker matters will weaken the signal.

Get 802.11 g connection and you shall find a better coverage radius or get a booster to strengthen the signal and double up the reachability.