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In article <Pxpdd.27785$z77.13628@news.chello.at>,
DJkapi <a.kurowski@chello.pl> wrote:
o you happen to know why 802.11g standard is known to be more secure than
:802.11b? I heared something like it but i dont know the answer.
It isn't. However, WiFi security methods improved after 802.11b
was standardized but before 802.11g was standardized, so a number
of vendors built the new security into their 802.11g designs
and didn't bother to go back to their 802.11b and put the same
security in. The change might have required hardware modifications,
for example, and it is seldom profitable to go back and redesign
less-capable hardware when newer faster hardware with backwards
compatability is already in place.
The fault is not in 802.11b but in the economics of retrofitting.
If you use a 802.11g device in 802.11b mode, you can use the
newer security features, provided that the other end understands
them.
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