kphinney;469876 Wrote: > My hopes of the new SB Touch having 802.11n at 54ghz didn't pan out. > For one, I'm going to hold off on buying any wireless product that > doesn't support 802.11n using 5ghz. At present my entire network is > capped by having two SB3s running at 802.11g & 2.4ghz. This brings my > top-end down from 540 to 144mbps.
Could you explain to me why it is capped at 144mbps? There are several dual band routers that use both the 5 and 2.4 bands simultaaneously (e.g. the Linksys WRT610N or D-Link DIR-825). And having a G device in your 2.4 channel does not bring down the N devices to B speed (like any B device would drag a G network down to B-speed). The big improvement of using a N router is the strength of the signal and the range; you don't need a N device at the other end for that. A simple experience here: I couldn't get G wireless get to work in my house at all. Even at very short distances (2 meters with a floor between) I did not get any good connection (poor signal strength with four different tested G routers), so I gave up. I now have a wireless N router that feeds an SB3 and notebook through the same floor and some walls without problem. So, IMO wireless N is needed at the router side, not for the attached devices. As G is perfectly adequate for streaming audio, I don't see the urgency for N on SD devices. (I think future SD devices will have N, but in the first place for marketing purposes. I hear the salesman already saying: 'it doesn't even have wireless N.) That said, to avoid any problems, I have my transporter on my wired gigabit ethernet. But that's because I need that network in that part of my house for other purposes, so it's already there. Teus -- Teus de Jong ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Teus de Jong's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=15415 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=69496 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
