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Tuesday, July 16, 2002
http://www.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/erm0247.pdf The Argument for Wireless LANs Tracy Futhey Colleges and universities cite many reasons for their decision to delay installing wireless networks: * Wireless bandwidth is too limited for effective use by an entire class. * Security for 802.11b is too weak. * The industry is too unsettled to commit to wireless technology. * Students with networked laptops in class will be too busy e-mailing each other to listen to the lecture. Some of these reasons may sound remarkably familiar. But as persuasive as these arguments can be, wireless local-area networks (WLANs) continue to appear....
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