From: "Rich Gauszka" 

The reviews have been rather mediocre for  the Draft-N routers from Netgear
Linksys, D-Link and Buffalo

http://www.engadget.com/2006/06/20/netgear-and-linksys-get-draft-n-routers-revi
ewed/

http://cnet.nytimes.com/D_Link_RangeBooster_N_650_DIR_635_wireless_router/4505-
3319_7-31841162.html


"Glenn Meadows"  wrote in message
news:44d77d7b$1{at}w3.nls.net...
>I guess the real key is what type of WAP they use.  Some of the real heavy
>duty ones, claim to be able to support more concurrent users than the
>typical home WAP, for sure.
>
> I've been looking at the Draft N units, and some are claiming up to and
> over 300MB throughput.  Wonder if the WAN ports can run at GIG speeds, to
> dump into a gig backbone?
>
> I might move my home WLAN to one of the N units, just to get off the a/b/g
> band.  There are about 11 WLANS that show up in my location, and mine is
> doing what Anti's is doing now, drop/re-attach during the evening.  A
> royal PITA if you're downloading files and such, getting disconnected all
> the time.  I've tried shifting to different frequencies, but no real
> success. I'm only about 20 feet from the base station, thru one dry-wall
> wall.
>
> --
>
> Glenn M.
> "JaneL"  wrote in message
> news:44d77752$1{at}w3.nls.net...
>> "Glenn Meadows" wrote:
>>
>>> Yikes, how many cubes, and how many access points?
>>>
>>
>> Dunno exactly, and I don't have a seating chart available right now to
>> look at and count.  I wasn't involved in this move other than to be asked
>> about my seating preference (window, please, and don't care about the
>> view - just the light - so I'm to have a lovely view of I-385 at rush
>> hour).
>>
>> It will be interesting to see how it all works if what I was told about
>> the entire office being wireless is true and not just the conference
>> rooms! When I retired in December from my last position, the building I
>> was in was getting all its conference rooms set up for wireless, and I
>> understand it's been working well there.  Cubes and offices were
>> remaining wired, though.
>>
>
>

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