rrweather;476238 Wrote: > > So, in plain language, does adding a dual band router improve the > speed, coverage, or data transfer capabilities for devices that use only > G?
MIMO (not dualband) increases the effective range, which in turn increases the speed in problematic situations. If you live in the country, away from noisy wifi/microwave/etc and have a router 10' from wireless devices, it would do nothing... but if you're on a hairy edge, it can make an iffy network feasible. > > In my situation, since everything I own is G, is there something to > gain by purchasing and installing a dual band router? I am definitely > not an expert in this subject so I am open to suggestions. I just > thought the dual band router would only help me if I had N devices to > run on it. > You're confusing the two things. DualBand is "I can work at 2 and 5G ranges..." MIMO is "I have more clever antennas and get better signal strength from them". http://www.networkworld.com/net.worker/news/2005/032805netlead.html Some testing with 802.11g products and MIMO antennas. Even on G-only networks, MIMO improves the signal. -- snarlydwarf ------------------------------------------------------------------------ snarlydwarf's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1179 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=70176 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
