IRJ;256631 Wrote: > It's my understanding that a WiFi router is only as fast as the units it > speaks to. i.e. If you have a "N" WiFi router and you match it with one > say SBC or SBR maxing at "G" speeds then the whole system defaults to > max "G" speeds. I ask because the SBC appears to be on 100% of the > time. > > Am I way out here? > > Thanks
Not exactly, the WiFi Access Point communicates as fast as it can with each client. You CAN mix 802.11n and 802.11g clients on the same network. The drawback is that 11g clients need more airtime to transmit the same amount of data. The fastest 11g clients only pass data at 50% of their physical layer rate. So for example an 11g client running at 54Mbps will use 1/54th of the available airtime to transmit a 500kbps audio stream while an 11n client can get up to ~67% efficiency at 300Mbps (or 1/400th of the available airtime for the 500kbps stream). The problem that can occur is when the 11g client is too far from the access point - i.e a device running at only 2Mbps would use 50% of the airtime to transport the same audio stream -- aweitzner ------------------------------------------------------------------------ aweitzner's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=12298 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=41813 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
