I see that all the "pre N" stuff is compatible. Does "compatible" mean it just works but not as well, or is there a performance compromise in using the "pre N" stuff?
I see that all the "pre N" stuff is compatible. Does "compatible" mean it just works but not as well, or is there a performance compromise in using the "pre N" stuff?
IIRC, all the "pre-N" stuff will be firmware upgradeable to be fully N compatible.
No, I'm afraid. If I recall correctly, the Wii uses 802.11g which is slower and older than 11n. They're compatible, but you need an 11n router and device to get wireless n speeds.
The biggest improvement most people will see on N today is range. The range and signal resilience against outside interference is top notch vs. G.
As far as speed goes, for businesses that want to incorporate it I'm sure it will have some immediate impact, for home users though, it will take a few years for your ISP's bandwidth to catch up with the wireless standard. I have the most lavish and expensive broadband connection you can buy in the Baltimore/DC metro area now and I'm still only meeting about half of G's potential. So I'm saying, if your wireless G equipment is in reasonable proximity to your gear, don't expect that swapping to N is going to show you any kind of performance boost, but if your gear is three floors away from your router, wireless N could make a world of difference for you.
So I'm saying, if your wireless G equipment is in reasonable proximity to your gear, don't expect that swapping to N is going to show you any kind of performance boost, but if your gear is three floors away from your router, wireless N could make a world of difference for you.
Unless, of course, you run multiple machines on the same wireless network since they all have to share the wireless bandwidth. If this is the case, you should see a marked improvement in speeds between hosts on your network and an N network should be able to comfortably accommodate more wireless hosts than a G network.
So what are the major devices will see keeping people in comparability mode? The wii and the DS for sure, does the DSi do it? How about the Xbox, PS3, most Windows Media Extenders or an Apple TV? The iPhone doesn't so my network still has to run in g mode. Do G1's?
N is backwards compatible with a/b/g (or so I've read). Thus even though you have a house full of g devices, you can still run an n network if you so choose.
Wow, I almost lost track of if this was a standard. I didn't think it was, but it's been out so long... I like my hidden and non-speaker interference "A" network for now.
I have a 802.11g network at home with a WRT54GL which connects 7 computers and several devices over Wifi and one file/ssh server + two compute servers over Ethernet. It is able to support 4 computers over wifi playing games together like Halo, Quake 4. The only problem is when I download a large file, like Windows 7 iso from MSDNAA. It is not practical to distribute such large files over the speed of 802.11g. I will wait for Tomato firmware that I have on WRT54GL runs on a 802.11n router until I upgrade.
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2) Thank god.
As far as speed goes, for businesses that want to incorporate it I'm sure it will have some immediate impact, for home users though, it will take a few years for your ISP's bandwidth to catch up with the wireless standard. I have the most lavish and expensive broadband connection you can buy in the Baltimore/DC metro area now and I'm still only meeting about half of G's potential. So I'm saying, if your wireless G equipment is in reasonable proximity to your gear, don't expect that swapping to N is going to show you any kind of performance boost, but if your gear is three floors away from your router, wireless N could make a world of difference for you.
Unless you do wireless streaming, then your network just receive the ability to stream 1080P.