Teus de Jong;470014 Wrote: > Could you explain to me why it is capped at 144mbps? There are several > dual band routers that use both the 5 and 2.4 bands simultaneously (e.g. > the Linksys WRT610N or D-Link DIR-825). And having a G device in your > 2.4 channel does not bring down the N devices to G speed (like any B > device would drag a G network down to B-speed). > > The big improvement of using a N router is the strength of the signal > and the range; you don't need a N device at the other end for that. A > simple experience here: I couldn't get G wireless get to work in my > house at all. Even at very short distances (2 meters with a floor > between) I did not get any good connection (poor signal strength with > four different tested G routers), so I gave up. I now have a wireless N > router that feeds an SB3 and notebook through the same floor and some > walls without problem. > > So, IMO wireless N is needed at the router side, not for the attached > devices. As G is perfectly adequate for streaming audio, I don't see the > urgency for N on SD devices. (I think future SD devices will have N, but > in the first place for marketing purposes. I hear the salesman already > saying: 'it doesn't even have wireless N.) > > Teus
Yeah, adding support for 802.11n, let alone 802.11n at 5GHz, would seem like a waste. Anyone who absolutely needs to be operating a 5 GHz network should be able to afford a dual-band access point or at least a separate 2.4 GHz access point for the 2.4 GHz devices. -- dagordon ------------------------------------------------------------------------ dagordon's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=6804 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=69496 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
