I see lots of people agreeing with each other that 'N' is unnecessary for music, which it certainly is from a bandwidth point of view. But in many dense urban areas, the whole 2.4GHz band is pretty much unusable! Everyone seems to have a wireless router, usually on a fixed, but randomly chosen channel clashing with 2-3 other wireless routers.
Since .11g is by definition used only in the 2.4GHz band, your two viable choices are good ol' .11a (with its limited range) and .11n used in the 5GHz band (which recovers most of the range loss using diversity techniques). I also don't get why using a .11n router with .11g equipment can be expected to yield a performance gain (even though Sean used to say the same thing). In this scenario, the .11g station has just one antenna and the .11n AP has two or three. Unless the AP can transmit using more than one antenna in .11g mode, there should be no performance gain on the link from the AP to the station compared to a pure .11g configuration. As far as I know, an 802.11n AP can only use selection diversity on transmit when talking to a .11g station, but could benefit from maximal ratio combining (MRC) diversity in receive mode. Since the improvement can only be had when the .11n AP is in receive mode, the same weak link in the chain remains when the .11n AP is talking to the .11g station, which is the main mode needed for transmitting music from a wired central server out to various Squeezebox stations. Somebody please correct me if I am wrong. -- dsdreamer ---------------------- "Dreamer, easy in the chair that really fits you..." ------------------------------------------------------------------------ dsdreamer's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=12588 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=67882 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
