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tmc8080

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Floral Park, NY

an educated consumer..

Keep in mind, you will still need DUAL BAND compatable adapters to utilize the 5ghz frequency spectrum, as plain-old 802.11n utilizes 2.4 as an overlay to G frequencies.. and makes them very choppy for 802.11g routers in the area.
permalink · 2008-07-04 10:44:48 · Reply to this
quatrix
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Re: an educated consumer..

An educated consumer would know that 802.11n is overkill for at least 95% of users.
permalink · 2008-07-04 10:55:53 · Reply to this

Dogfather
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Re: an educated consumer..

802.11n is hardly overkill.
permalink · 2008-07-04 11:11:23 · Reply to this

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said by quatrix See Profile :

An educated consumer would know that 802.11n is overkill for at least 95% of users.
I would agree, if wifi speeds in the real world came anywhere near the "Advertised/Theoretical" speeds.
Show me an 802.11n device combination that - in the real world, can even hit the advertised rates of .G, and I'll buy one today.
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Re: an educated consumer..

I see better than 90Mb on 802.11n and that is with only 20MHz channels (not bad for a theo max of 130Mb). I also see much farther range than I ever did with 802.11g. With 802.11g I was lucky to see 35Mb and on the other side of the house I was lucky to get more than 2Mb.
permalink · 2008-07-04 17:25:23 · Reply to this
EPS

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Re: an educated consumer..

I'm three floors above my wireless router on 802.11g, and I'm getting 48 mbps to the router... and this is the infamous Verizon FiOS standard Actiontec Router... is 802.11g really that bad?
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Re: an educated consumer..

It was for me with various routers (WRT54G, Motorola 54G, UFO Airport Extreme). With both Airport Extreme N or D-Link DIR-655 I get nearly 100Mb at distances of about 75'. With 40MHz channels I get up to 2X that depending on the file time and what device I'm copying from. Of course I never get anywhere near the advertised 270Mb but I get 3-5X the speeds I ever saw from 11g.

802.11n would be overkill if it were really expensive (like 802.11a is/was), but with routers getting cheaper, and a lot of newer notebooks including it, I personally think it's worth it. Even when I bring my notebook back to my desk, I don't bother to plug into my network to do TM backups or transfer large files.
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TheMG

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said by EPS See Profile :

I'm three floors above my wireless router on 802.11g, and I'm getting 48 mbps to the router... and this is the infamous Verizon FiOS standard Actiontec Router... is 802.11g really that bad?
Is that from an actual network benchmark or are you just pulling this from what Windows or your router is telling you?
permalink · 2008-07-04 21:34:52 · Reply to this

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Re: an educated consumer..

said by TheMG See Profile :

said by EPS See Profile :

I'm three floors above my wireless router on 802.11g, and I'm getting 48 mbps to the router... and this is the infamous Verizon FiOS standard Actiontec Router... is 802.11g really that bad?
Is that from an actual network benchmark or are you just pulling this from what Windows or your router is telling you?
That has to be just what windows is claiming.
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permalink · 2008-07-05 08:43:15 · Print · Reply to this
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