Wireless Routers: The Skinny on 802.11n

Describes some of the advantages of the 802.11n protocol for wireless communications as compared to b/g specifications. The audience is the average consumer who has a 802.11b/g wireless router and is interested in the possibility of upgrading to 802.11n, This is a class project for EDMT 627 at Eastern Michigan University.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• wireless
• routers
• 802.11n
• 802.11b
• 802.11g

[rasmasyean]

Also, can't you get both a G and N router / Access point? I presume you can set the N router to only allow N connections. Or would they interfere with eachother if they are close to one another and you have to like run a long wire to separate them or something like that?

[rasmasyean]

So if you connect a G device into an N network it "slows the whole network down"... Does it also reduce the range to G ranges?

How exactly does this work? Does it connect all the devices at backward compatible G, and then when the G device is turned off, it will go back to N? Or does it connect G deves at G and N devices at N, but it goes into "slow mode" at some speed across the entire network?

[ogisensei]

Thanks. This was perfect. You hit all the highlights I was hoping to see. I have posted your video on the class page. Thanks!!!!!