Wireless Networking 802.11g vs 802.11n

sei1925

I have a Bt home hub set up and everything is fine i have no problems with it at all but i had to buy a new laptop recently and decided on a Sony vaio which has the newer N networking built into it i also saw that my Bt home hub was N enabled could someone tell me if there is a lot of difference?. Should i be getting greater performance and greater range i'ts just i dont actually see any difference any input would be appreciated.

BargainGalore

Its much faster and suppose to be better in poor areas in house

http://compnetworking.about.com/cs/wireless80211/a/aa80211standard.htm

Money_Grabber13579

But other than that, surely it's just the speed has been upped from 54Mbps to 600Mbps? But then who has even 54Mbps broadband anyway in this country?!

802.11g will do okay for me for a long while with my measly 4Mbps broadband!

Lokolo

I have an N draft router.

Its !!!!!!!g AMAZING.

letsbehonest

What an N draft router? please dont assume we are all !!!!!!!g tech heads

Antispam

N draft was a wireless standard that came out before official being recognised by the powers at be. Once the standard was retified n draft could be updated to the retified version where appropriate should any changes to that standard be given to it

sei1925

Thanks for the replies so basically it just gives you increased wireless range i suppose the speed it can give you depends on what your isp gives you. I am with Bt and i get about 8mb as stated by Bt but really only get between 3 and 6mb depending on the time of day. I must be missing something as i cant really see the advantages at the moment!.

Fifer

sei1925 wrote: »

Thanks for the replies so basically it just gives you increased wireless range i suppose the speed it can give you depends on what your isp gives you.

No, the main thing it provides is faster speeds. Not too much of an advantage if you are just using it for internet connection (other than possibly better coverage), but a big advantage if you are streaming or transferring large files over your network. For HD video streaming (for example), it should provide significant advantages.

quidsinquentin

Fifer wrote: »

No, the main thing it provides is faster speeds. Not too much of an advantage if you are just using it for internet connection (other than possibly better coverage), but a big advantage if you are streaming or transferring large files over your network. For HD video streaming (for example), it should provide significant advantages.

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Fifer

quidsinquentin wrote: »

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Long time no see/hear/read post!

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Very well thanks Quentin. Good to see you posting.

GunJack

Fifer wrote: »

No, the main thing it provides is faster speeds. Not too much of an advantage if you are just using it for internet connection (other than possibly better coverage), but a big advantage if you are streaming or transferring large files over your network. For HD video streaming (for example), it should provide significant advantages.

Just to clarify things for the OP, this DOES NOT mean any increase in your broadband connection speed, just between your router (hub) and anything connected to/via it. So, better speed between your hub and your pc, ABSOLUTELY NO DIFFERENCE to your internet speed.

If all you have is one pc connected to your router, chances are you'll not really see any advantage. If, however, as fifer suggests, you stream stuff between pc, xbox, media player, etc., then you could see some performance improvement.