dwilliams01;209695 Wrote: > It had security options that my old G hub didn't support. My laptop with > built-in b didn't support it either.
You're most likely talking about WPA - which 802.11b never supported. 802.11g has supported it from the beginning, but not all 802.11g chipsets supported it. Those that don't are no longer in production. > There is no point in designing a new device using old standards - as > people have pointed out there probably isn't much in the way of a > signifant price difference, just a simplicity/efficiency one. If you're talking about WEP, certainly, that was broken long ago. Dropping support for it in 802.11n would be a great idea so people won't accidentally use it. Several on this thread have requested to see what "new" security you're talking about and never received the answer. It's WPA/PSK or WPA2/AES or some non-standard manufacturer-specific thing that won't interoperate with equipment from other manufacturers. These are "old" standards in that they're over five years old (gasp!) There's nothing wrong with them provided you aren't stupid about the passphrase - to perform a brute-force attack on these would take on the order of thousands of years... > My pre-n certainly appears to me to have much better range and > reliability than my old G hub. Not a scientific test, but it has been > confirmed with multiple devices (using the belkin pre-n cards and hub) > vs the old G hub that I had for a while. It went through walls much > better, no dead spots and null zones in the house and even work further > out into the yard. So speed isn't the only thing to consider. True, but in order to take advantage of this you only need it in the router/AP - and you can do this with an 802.11g MIMO router. You don't need this technology in a low-bandwidth end client like the SB. -- Mark Lanctot 'Sean Adams' Response-O-Matic checklist, patent pending!' (http://forums.slimdevices.com/showpost.php?p=200910&postcount=2) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mark Lanctot's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2071 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=36169 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
