What is difference between "1394 coonnection" and "wireless connection"?

Question

Also, does 1394 have to be enabled for wireless to work?
Thanks!

Answer 1

1394 is a firewire connection, this was an alternative to USB that never made it main stream, this is a wired connection, and wireless uses no wires.......

Answer 2

1394 is a Firewire connection. It's a totally different thing from wireless. Wireless standards are sometimes known as 802.11

802.11a has a maximum speed of 54Mbps, but it works at the 5GHz frequency.

802.11b has a maximum speed of 11Mbps and it works at 2.4GHz frequency.

802.11g has a maximum speed of 54Mbps and it works at 2.4GHz frequency. 802.11g is also backward compatible with 802.11b, meaning that your 802.11g wireless card/router will automatically switch to using 802.11b when no 802.11g networks are around.

802.11n is a new standard that is currently being ratified. You may have seen in shops about Pre-N routers and wireless cards. These routers and cards are backward compatible with 802.11b and 802.11g networks. Also, they have a maximum speed of 108Mbps.

1394 doesn't need to be enabled for wireless to work, unless your hardware is connected via a 1394 connection.

For more explanation, you can refer to Wikipedia

IEEE 1394 - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FireWire
IEEE 802.11 - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_802.11

For more info on these standards, you can find out on IEEE website

IEEE 1394 - http://standards.ieee.org/micro/1394overview.html
IEEE 802.11 - http://grouper.ieee.org/groups/802/11/

Answer 3

IEEE 1394 is referred to as FireWire. It actually has no relation whatsoever to your wireless connection. It was developed as a faster alternative to USB, and is used primarily by digital camcorders to transfer video files to your PC faster than you could with a standard USB connection.

So no, your 1394 connection would have no effect at all on your wireless connection.

Answer 4

the IEEE 1394 is fire wire, a cable connection
the IEEE 802.11b is wireless network b
the IEEE 802.11g is wireless network g also works with b
the IEEE 802.11a is wireless network a also works with b and g

and no it does not have to be enabled for your wireless network to work, 2 completely different things, and the other guy was wrong, fire wire is main stream, all most all video cameras these days have that kind of connection, there are many different devices that use fire wire, mainly used for external hard drives and video equipment