Dogfather
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Laguna Hills, CA
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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. |
