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.
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tommyrot - Nov 08, 2009 11:38:01 am PST #11604 of 25501
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Gudanov - Nov 08, 2009 12:34:24 pm PST #11605 of 25501
Coding and Sleeping
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.
Typo Boy - Nov 08, 2009 1:11:12 pm PST #11606 of 25501
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
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.
Liese S. - Nov 08, 2009 3:19:42 pm PST #11607 of 25501
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
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.
Gudanov - Nov 09, 2009 3:35:01 am PST #11608 of 25501
Coding and Sleeping
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.
Jesse - Nov 09, 2009 8:19:15 am PST #11609 of 25501
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
It looks like the thing in my computer is 802.11b/g -- should I still get n?
Liese S. - Nov 09, 2009 10:15:24 am PST #11610 of 25501
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
Most N will be backwards compatible, but you won`t see the benefit now. It only matters for futureproofing then.
Jesse - Nov 09, 2009 10:17:03 am PST #11611 of 25501
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Since I am interested in buying something cheap anyway, I won't worry about it working with my future computer, then!
THANKS YOU GUYS. I know I only come here with questions I should be able to figure out myself, but I am easily overwhelmed.
Liese S. - Nov 09, 2009 10:21:04 am PST #11612 of 25501
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
So I`m on my phone. This is all new territory for me, phone luddite because FEAR. But now I don`t have to talk on my phone so win. But a) why can`t I see blockquote formatting? and more irritatingly, b) why can`t I enter paragraph breaks? I`m textually verbose, y`all, you want me to have paragraph breaks.
omnis_audis - Nov 09, 2009 10:59:11 am PST #11613 of 25501
omnis, pursue. That's an order from a shy woman who can use M-16. - Shir
what phone do you have?