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- JohnboiWaltune, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10There are plenty of rich morons who think it will "make the internet go faster", and plenty of salespeople who will say it to anyone who walks in the door of CompUSA or Best Buy. The networking hardware companies are racing to get a piece of that lucrative idiot market. If your product has a "300mbps" on it and the competitor's has "54mbps", guess which one Joe Moron is going to buy?
- deadlock, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10After the third or fourth one failed, why did you keep purchasing their products?
- mkrygeri, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Belkin and linksys remained mum? I've had a belkin pre-n for months now. It's an amazing device range wise even with my G laptop. I use a pre-N card in my PC which seems to get faster throughput than when I had 100Mb wired into a linksys(from the same PC).
Totally shiatty VOIP SIP support though... - Solstice, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Belkin's been quiet? The seem to splashing it all over their homepage:
http://www.belkin.com/wireless/
I bought one of these last month. It's been great. - drizek, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6802.12
- OperatorNo9, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4I think his point was that he doesn't care.
- Slapula, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4edit: I'm blind... didn't see DEFSMAC's post about his concern over pre-n stuff
- chicken101, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Gosh, I don't even have wireless in my house yet. I'm old fashioned...
Swushhhhhh...... What was that?
That was your life, mate. - shank2001, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2They do have gigabit ethernet built in, silly
- V3suvius, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3802.11! @ # $ etc
- veloscaper, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3rzermatt, 802.11z -> 802.11aa, 802.11ab...802.11zz -> 802.11aaa...etc
- DEFSMAC, on 10/12/2007, -3/+5why are these companies putting out all this prestandard stuff? what do you do when it is not compatible with the final standard? yeah maybe you get lucky and a firmware upgrade will do the trick, but more than likely they will be laughing all the way to the bank when you have to shell out $180 for a new router.
- Fizzyboy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Actually it is 802.3
- muldoonaz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2here is netgear's page on the products:
http://netgear.com/promotions/2006/next.php - AtWorkSurfer, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I'd really love to upgrade to some of this pre-n equipment (I've got a big house and some places I just can't run cat5 to, but to which I want to be able to, say, stream video), and if any of these companies would just build a friggin' ethernet bridge (for equipment that accepts neither PCMCIA or PCI), I would be all over it.
- carlosglz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Yes I've also owned a Belkin pre-n router for several months... it even increases the range of of wireless g devices.
- bwilkins, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2What I don't understand is why if it has the potential to get 540-Mbits/s, why do they only have a 10/100-Mbit Ethernet switch? That would be a same to have all of that speed (if sitting near your router) just to have your data slowed down to go across your network.
- skaz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Best Buy has been selling Pre-N stuff for a long time now, the first I remember seeing was Belkin. Either this is very old, or very inaccurate.
- rzermatt, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2I have a question.. what happens after they go through every letter of the alphabet for 802.11? After 802.11z what comes next?
- l1wulf, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2The pre-n equipment does in fact look a bit different from B & G counterparts (mostly the fact that they have three antenna). While the article may not have pics, I've seen initial products on shelves at CompUSA, etc. The latest offerings for d-link can be found here (http://www.dlink.com/products/?pid=487), Netgear's (http://ss727.fusionbot.com/cgi-bin/ss_query?keys=802.11n&x=0&y=0&sitenbr=152879547) and Belkin's (http://catalog.belkin.com/IWCatSectionView.process?IWAction=Load&Merchant_Id=&Section_Id=202570).
- JohnboiWaltune, on 10/12/2007, -5/+6After Jesus comes back in his spaceship in 2012 to kill us all, it won't matter.
- Flagg3, on 10/12/2007, -4/+4Maybe because some of us don't wait to wait until 2007 for 802.11n, and would like better performance now? Pre-n will always be compatible with b and g, and pre-n improves range and throughput even when using b and g NICs.
I have a Belkin Pre-n router, and I would be astounded if it could be upgraded to 802.11n. That's not what I bought it for. - norvasc, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I really don't have any need for Pre-N stuff right now, as my Linksys Speedbooster stuff does quite nicely. I probably will not buy anything else until my WRT54GS dies.
- middleman, on 10/12/2007, -3/+3Why cant there be pictures to go along with the article? I want to see there designs, mainly if there is any sort of major changes. I would'nt expect there to be compared to "b" and "g" models, but you never know how fancy a manufacturer might get.
- Slapula, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2Flagg3: but you still run the risk of it not being compatible with the final standard.
- ShmoeTheHo, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1These are the first products that are actually much closer to the real spec that was released. The Pre-N products of the past weren't guaranteed to be compatible with the final standard.
From wikipedia -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/802.11
On January 19, 2006, the IEEE 802.11n Task Group approved the Joint Proposal's specification, based on EWC's specification as the confirmed 802.11n proposal.
At the March 2006 meeting, the IEEE 802.11 Working Group sent the 802.11n Draft to its first letter ballot, which means that the 500+ 802.11 voters get to review the document and suggest bugfixes, changes and improvements. - Protoss, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1802.12 is ethernet's specification, I think...
- puffarthur, on 10/12/2007, -3/+2I've purchased 7 netgear wireless products in the past and they've all failed on me. I think I'll wait for another brand to make .11n products.
- neocitron, on 10/12/2007, -6/+3Apple is supposed to release a new AirPort 802.11n am i not correct?
- RezSav, on 10/12/2007, -9/+1You win the internet for the day.
I'm locking this thread.
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