Effect of varied wireless standards and properties towards wireless network bandwidth

IEEE 802.11 provides multiple wireless networking (WLAN) standardswith each new standard attempting to improve overall performance whilst remainingbackward compatible to older ones. The current practise of setting up WLANs is touse non-overlapping channels and high signal strengths to provide optimumperformance for stations in the network. In this paper, we try to show that the commonpractises may not be enough to ensure the best performance in a WLAN and stationsthemselves may be responsible for affecting network performance. Preliminary resultsare obtained are based on experiments executed in a simple test model using the802.11g standard