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Maybe. Depends on what you do. Will cutting your browsing speed by half be a problem for you? I think you can get an N router these days for around $40 bucks.
I have not shopped lately for routers so can't swear as to quality, but here is a D-link brand N router for for about the same as your linksys G at Amazon
Ok customer reviews don't sound good. But you can probably find something in that price range, perhaps for five or ten bucks more.
Will cutting your browsing speed by half be a problem for you?
Yeah, I have no idea. It's so zippy right now, I can't tell.
Anyway, thanks. Will shop around.
OK here is something comparable at Target
You may be able to use the web site to find a target near you which has it in stock, which means that if it does not work out for you, you can use their 90 day return policy to bring it back.
I haven't heard of any made in the past decade that don't
"Decade" is a slight exaggeration. I had to buy an Airport card for the iBook I bought in '03.
I loved that iBook, even thought it was a G3. My first Mac product. sniff.
The router you linked to G.b which has nominal speed of 11 mps, but in practice will give a speed of 2-4 MPS.
That seems really low for wireless g. G is up to 54 Mbps which even in the real word should be able to handle a 7 - 10 Mbps cable connection. Our laptop doesn't have any trouble with getting our full 8.5 Mbps download rate. Not that there isn't any reason not to go with N. It's the better buy for future proofing, I just don't have one so I can't recommend a product.
Yeah, but the one linked to was a G.b. G.b is 11 meg. High end G does have 54. But not neccesarily and cheaper than N which is more standard.
I went with N for this most recent router and have been thrilled with it. It was future-proofing at the time, but since then both of our computers are N capable, so we really see the difference in file transfers. Not applicable with broadband because we're on the cel phone modem.
Yeah, but the one linked to was a G.b. G.b is 11 meg. High end G does have 54. But not neccesarily and cheaper than N which is more standard.
Regular 802.11g is 54 Mbps. A router capable of both 802.11g and 802.11b can still support full speed on 802.11g devices. There are some non-standard G devices that say that can do 108Mbps. At a similar price though I'd say an 802.11n device is definitely the way to go, though you might want to go with dual-band if you are going to mix 802.11g and 802.11n devices on the same network.
It looks like the thing in my computer is 802.11b/g -- should I still get n?