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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?
Most N will be backwards compatible, but you won`t see the benefit now. It only matters for futureproofing then.
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.
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.
what phone do you have?
Hee. And also obviously I can't get rid of the smart apostrophes. Hmm.
It's an LG ENV3, omnis. Not a smartphone, just a wannabe, but it's a big step up for me. Of course, Droid was available when I went in, and with Verizon's proprietary junk I wish I'd gone that direction instead. Just can't afford the extra required data plan.