802.11n extended range only for 802.11n clients


though there may be a marginal benefit...

802.11n range Some people are looking at the advertising for the new Airport Extreme 802.11n and are quite excited by the twice the range claim.

Generally to take advantage of the extended range of 802.11n, the clients must also be running 802.11n adapters.

In other words, though the 802.11n router offers greater range this is only for computers which support 802.11n. Those computers with 802.11g will not be able to benefit from the greater range.

Netgear also claims that the range of ordinary 802.11b and 802.11g clients can be improved up to 20% when using their 802.11n routers, but I suspect that in real life this will be about 10%.

Of course 20% is a lot less than 100%.

Posted: Sun - February 4, 2007 at 04:00 PM         | |

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