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Does anyone have a quick and dirty rundown of the RTLS vendors out there and the configurable data rates that they use. Aeroscout say they use 802.11 so... 1&2 Mbps? Ekahau... I cannot find anything on their site. Aginova (www.aginova.com) is one that is new to me but they are using 802.11b data rates. I a side note, I would like to turn 802.11b off this year. Not helping me out here WLAN client vendors. What chip mfg's are still producing 802.11b only chipsets even?

Just speculating ... you might be able to find someone making hardware for just "b", but I doubt it. Motorola (Symbol) might have something since they have been in the business so long, and had such a large presence in warehouse & other barcode scanning industries.

You could probably find scores of units on the Internet, but they would be at exhorbitant prices - in quantity that is. Usually it's not the speeds that someone is looking for, but rather some other feature. 802.11g devices are just so much better in a multipath space, that it just doesn't seem right installing "b" [u]only[/u] devices.