JohnInSJ
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San Jose, CA
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Re: N signal problems (WRT310N)
said by stevech0  :WPA/WEP will not affect signal strength. They are encryption things. Using WEP on 11n gear will force it into G mode, which will shut down all MIMO, which will negate any benefit thereof.
Trust me, you do NOT want WEP with 11n. There *is no WEP* in 11n.
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stevech0
join:2006-09-17
San Diego, CA
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May 6th, @10:37PM
| said by JohnInSJ :said by stevech0 :WPA/WEP will not affect signal strength. They are encryption things. Using WEP on 11n gear will force it into G mode, which will shut down all MIMO, which will negate any benefit thereof. Trust me, you do NOT want WEP with 11n. There *is no WEP* in 11n. well, if it drops into 11g mode, and no MIMO, I doubt you'll see much difference. MIMO has a slight benefit if BOTH ends of the link implement combinational MIMO. The client side doesn't, due to high cost and lack of room for antennas. But with just the w-router end implementing a subset of MIMO (as in 11n) it's primary benefit is to hype selling 11n. |
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higginst
join:2005-04-16
Earlysville, VA
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There *is* WEP in draft 11n. Support just isn't mandatory, so most wireless chipset manfs have chosen to not optimize performance and limit the link rate to 54 Mbps.
Ralink actually does support WEP and WPA/TKIP in its draft 11n chipsets that have virtually the same performance as WPA2/AES.
See the plot for the Belkin N Wireless Router.
»www.smallnetbuilder.com/content/···01/1/14/
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JohnInSJ
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| Right - ok, for *his specific draft N router, and nearly every other one you could buy today* using WEP will force the router out of N mode completely, so there will be no way to get faster then G speed out of it. Besides the fact that using WEP is about the same as using mac filtering... |
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