Patent ID: 7340015

Claim:
A client wireless module, for handling communications to and from an access point wireless module, comprising: an 802.11b processing section, for processing at least data to be transmitted to the access point wireless module into representations of a transmit signal and for processing at least a representation of a receive signal from the access point wireless module into receive data; an OFDM processing section, for processing at least a representation of a receive signal from the access point wireless module into receive data and for processing at least data to be transmitted to the access point wireless module into representations of a transmit signal; at least one transmit antenna, coupled to the 802.11b processing section and to the OFDM processing section; at least one receive antenna, coupled to the OFDM processing section and to the 802.11b processing section; and logic for routing information between a client and the client wireless module, wherein a transmit processing section to be used for processing the at least data to be transmitted is one of either the 802.11b or the OFDM processing sections, wherein the transmit processing section is defined at least in part upon one or more attributes of the client wireless module and one or more attributes of the access point wireless module, wherein the one or more attributes of the access point wireless module include a sensitivity of a receiver of the access point wireless module, wherein the one or more attributes of the client wireless module include a sensitivity of a receiver of the client wireless module, wherein if the receiver of the access point wireless module has a higher sensitivity than the sensitivity of the receiver of the client wireless module, the OFDM processing section is selected as the transmit processing section and, wherein if the receiver of the access point wireless module has a lower sensitivity than the sensitivity of the receiver of the client wireless module, the 802.11b processing section is selected as the transmit processing section.