... that passing data across an unreliable radio link could lead to pos-sible snooping, the IEEE 802.11 standard provides three ways to provide a greateramount of security for the data that travels ... youcan easily uncloak the SSID and authenticate to the access point.As mentioned earlier in the station services section, the AP also can authenticate a wireless device against a list of MAC addresses.This ... OFDM allows data rates of 6, 9, 12, 18,24, 36, 48, and 54 Mbps.In addition to speed enhancements, 802.11g hardware is backward compatiblewith 802.11b hardware.The backward compatibility feature...