Wireless G or Wireless N

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Are most laptops in our country Wireless G or Wireless N ?

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most are Wireless G by far. I'm not 100% sure if wireless N is official now (can somebody confirm?), but for a long time you could get "draft wireless N" devices which did not implement the official N standard but was different companies own version of N which is not necessarily compatible with the final official standards, or with other manufacturers N devices. So lets say a Belkin wireless N router could only work with a Belkin N card, but not with a Linksys card, etc. I hope that is changing now...
 
Knersus said:
most are Wireless G by far. I'm not 100% sure if wireless N is official now (can somebody confirm?), but for a long time you could get "draft wireless N" devices which did not implement the official N standard but was different companies own version of N which is not necessarily compatible with the final official standards, or with other manufacturers N devices. So lets say a Belkin wireless N router could only work with a Belkin N card, but not with a Linksys card, etc. I hope that is changing now...
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The N-standard has been defined and made fully official since sometime last year already, so incompatibility between brands should be a thing of the past by now.
 
I switched to using wireless N at home, but it has problems :

1) Range much shorter in house.

2) None of the older notebooks support N, and some of the newer ones only support 2.4GHz N (eg my Asus 1000HE netbook).

So I am using a dual-band router (Netgear) supporting 2.4GHz G and 5 GHz N at the same time.

It works OK. The N band is very fast, close to 300mbps.
 
Jola said:
I switched to using wireless N at home, but it has problems :

1) Range much shorter in house.

2) None of the older notebooks support N, and some of the newer ones only support 2.4GHz N (eg my Asus 1000HE netbook).

So I am using a dual-band router (Netgear) supporting 2.4GHz G and 5 GHz N at the same time.

It works OK. The N band is very fast, close to 300mbps.
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Funny, I have the exact opposite experience in terms of range using N (I have one of the first Draft N wireless access points that came out in 2007 - the big Netgear white box thingy). I get MUCH further range, even when connecting to it using a G card in my laptop. When buying a new wireless router, i'll only take N if there is one available. It's backwards compatible with G, so no issues there.

EDIT: By "It's backwards compatible" i really mean, the access point I have connects to G without a problem.
 
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I've also got a Netgear(dgn2000) router and my neighbours pick up my network, we talking atleast 40 meters which is pretty good IMO..
So make sure you set up a good password on your network :)

EDIT:

Just a question on Wi-Fi Protected Access which is better WPA2-PSK, WPA-PSK or WEP ?
It offers me the above 3 as well as Mixed WPA-PSK+WPA2-PSK which i've chosen.
 
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I also pretty much have to change all my computers to N, because I am installing IP cameras that use G, and each of them uses a channel, so I will run out of G channels.

The old notebooks will be a problem in this respect, unless I use them with N dongles.

I tried updating the Mini PCI-E cards with N cards, but it didn't work so well, it seems that the built-in antennas in the notebooks are highly optimised for the cards that they come with.
 
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