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AdmnPower

AdmnPower

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Alright, so I'm working on getting everything straight as far as the technological details that surround all the different wireless networking standards. I know that standard wireless g is 54 megabit and that there are some routers that are advertised as G that are 108 megabit which just means they support full duplex. Then there is wirless g with MIMO, how exactly does that work... do you have to have MIMO enabled cards to take advantage of a MIMO router? What about wireless N. Is it still 2.4 ghz? How does it improve speed and range over G. What's it's theoretical max throughput, does it do better than wireless G for supporting multiple devices connected at once. Are there any benefits to having a wireless N router when all you have are wireless G devices? All questions I'd like answered, I'm just trying to start a general discussion of wireless so I can become a better informed individual. Thanks
 
No one interested in starting a discussion about various wireless technologies? I refuse the believe that....
 
I'll give you the tid-bit of knowledge I have. As far as I know, the throughput of a 802.11n wireless setup is 300mbits/s. It does work on the 2.4 gHz band, but i think it works on several different channels of that at once (giving the higher throughput). It does not help to have a wireless n router with g devices as far as I know. In fact, if there is even one g device on a n network, the whole network will run at g speeds.
This isn't coming from an expert, but hopefully that answers a couple of your questions.
 
AdmnPower said:
Then there is wirless g with MIMO, how exactly does that work... do you have to have MIMO enabled cards to take advantage of a MIMO router?
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And I'm reading about MIMO on Wikipedia now. As far as I can see, you can have a MIMO device in any part of your network and increase performance? I'd like to know a little more about it myself, so if anyone could chime in that'd be great ;)
 
Yeah, see from what I read it sounded like having an MIMO router would help performance on a network of all standard G devices because it supports multiple in and out connections at once, sort of like going from a wired hub to a switch maybe?
 
I don't think it adds the ability to have more connections per se, but more increases the signal both inbound and outbound. Maybe increasing range?
 
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I'll give you the tid-bit of knowledge I have. As far as I know, the throughput of a 802.11n wireless setup is 300mbits/s. It does work on the 2.4 gHz band, but i think it works on several different channels of that at once (giving the higher throughput). It does not help to have a wireless n router with g devices as far as I know. In fact, if there is even one g device on a n network, the whole network will run at g speeds.
This isn't coming from an expert, but hopefully that answers a couple of your questions.
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Alright, that makes sense. How does it boast such an improvment in range? Did they just boost the power the routers and cards put out?
 
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