pfarrell;408224 Wrote: > Peter wrote: > > That holier than thou attitude could be very damaging to business. I > > > figure LT/SD are smarter that that. > > > Its not a spec. The router vendors are selling it, and selling NICs to > go with it. And perhaps the final version will match. If not, what > does > a vendor do with all the deployed units that can't be made to match > the > spec. > > When Linksys, Netgear, Trendnet, and D-Link start selling units that > they guarantee will interoperate, then it becomes a different story. > thats really not true. Draft 1.0 and Draft 2.0 have been specs. Draft 2.0 hardware is required to be compatible with Draft 1.0, and N final is required to be compatible with D1.0 and D2.0 Each spec has been additive in nature so the previous Drafts are fully compatible just not with as many features (for example draft 1.0 had no 5ghz band but draft 2.0 does) so there is very little risk in releasing N hardware (especially when your competitors are!)
"-pre--N" on the other hand is what you are referring to, where manufactures guessed on the spec, but those havent been sold in a few years (and most have been firmware updated to draft anyway) -- Evan55 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Evan55's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=27937 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=61579 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
