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| | PCWorld.com - Trouble Ahead for Wi-Fi Hot Spots? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14) |
 | | French researchers say they have pinpointed a problem in wireless LAN technology that could severely impair the performance of newer high-speed networks. |
 | | Engineering experts at France's Centre Nationale de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) in Paris have demonstrated how a slow device connected to WLAN hotspot can cause an entire network to drop to a slower speed, citing a common channel access method as the cause, Andrzej Duda, one of the researchers, said Thursday in an interview. |
 | | They observed that when one wireless device, such as a notebook, connects to a WLAN at a lower bit rate than other devices--because it is too far from the access point, for example--performance of the other devices on the network becomes noticeably degraded. |
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