I just don't get the excitement around 802.11a and 802.11g standards.  Sure -- 5 times as fast would be nice, but in reality, I'm not using my wireless connection for anything that requires faster speeds.  God knows my broadband connection can't keep up with 11Mbps.  And if I do (like copying GBs of photos around) I just plug in to an ethernet cable. I know, eventually we'll get video on demand and all sorts of other high end services over these wireless links.

802.11b strikes a great balance of speed and range.  The build-out is happening.  Why is the press trying to make such a big deal of it?  Or is it not the press and there are people who are really excited about this stuff?

(10Gb ethernet might be more interesting as this means the network is approaching bus speeds.)

You have to own a guinea pig to appreciate this.  Make sure you actually wait and watch the ad.  Here is a direct link to the ad video file in wmv format (other formats are available on the site).

I was busting a gut on this.  They even say "Moo" at the end.

(Getting that snapshot of the video was a total PITA.  Because of video overlays, PrintScreen didn't work.  I had to turn off all of the video acceleration features via the display control panel so that the video went through the normal display pipeline.  Overlays suck -- and they don't work with a desktop compositor.  Hint, hint.)