Posts Tagged 802.11N
The trouble with 802.11 Wireless-N
Posted by Ivan Bohannon in Wireless Networking on April 15th, 2010
(Ed: This was originally written in 2009 when I was reviewing the WNR 3500)
As I finish up the third day of frustrating testing with the Netgear WNR 3500 Wireless-N Gigabit router, I’ve come to a simple realization: There just aren’t enough channels at 2.4 Ghz to make 300 Mbps wireless N work. Read the rest of this entry »
D-Link DIR628 RangeBooster N Dual Band Router
Posted by Ivan Bohannon in Wireless Networking on March 18th, 2009
Frys had this wireless-n router on sale for $69 the other day. Great price. I bought two in hopes of being able to use one of them as a repeater to create a larger wireless network. For the record, this product doesn’t support that. Oh I tried to use the D-Link Quick Router Setup CD, it repeatedly crashes in nmrsbase.exe. I googled this filename and its the Network Magic setup app, D-Link must rebrand this application. The manual browser setup works fine. I really despise installation CDs.
The experts help me figure out my WLAN problems
Posted by Ivan Bohannon in Wireless Networking on December 2nd, 2008
I asked my linkedin extended network to help me figure out why I was getting such lousy WLAN performance. This was my question:
Why is WLAN still so slow? How come wireless-N products don’t test significantly faster than plain old 802.11G?
I’ve been doing lots of performance testing of WLAN products and writing up the results on my blog (www.bohannontech.com). I was excited at first because I bought some nice new 802.11N 270Mbps products from all of the major brands, Linksys, Netgear, D-Link, and Trend. These products often show a connection speed of 270Mbps, but the actual speeds of file copies is terrible – some as slow as 6 Mbps, and this is with 2 computers in the same room. When I run the same tests with wired Ethernet, I will consistently get 80Mbps.
Has anyone been able to get a real performing wireless-N setup and if so, can you recommend any products? Read the rest of this entry »
270Mbps = 29Mbps!
Posted by Ivan Bohannon in Wireless Networking on November 19th, 2008
Well I’m disappointed. I wanted to find out how much speed I could get out of the NETGEAR RangeMax Dual Band Wireless-N Router (WNDR3300) , so I moved a PC right next to the access point and plugged a USB Dual Band Wireless-N Adapter (WNDA3100) into it. Read the rest of this entry »
NETGEAR RangeMax Dual Band Wireless-N products
Posted by Ivan Bohannon in Product Reviews, Wireless Products on November 18th, 2008
NETGEAR WNDR3300. $99, Frys. ($20 Rebate was available)
NETGEAR WNDA3100. $89, Frys.
Well the WNDR3300 AP has alot of claims on the packaging: 15X speed, 10X coverage, interference avoidance, EIGHT internal antennas. Read the rest of this entry »
