I'm shopping for a new laptop to replace a 2 year old Dell Inspiron 1300 I dropped in January 2008 and damaged it's monitor. My old Dell came with a wireless g card, there's a new card out now called wireless N. Should I switch to a wireless N card in any new laptop or stay with wireless g? Will my Linksys router model #WRT54G work with wireless N or will I have to buy a new router to work with any new computer having wireless N? Finally what does WPA and WPA2 stand for?
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CyberVisions Martian Notebook Overlord
While you can use your old Router with an N or multi-standard wireless adapter, you won't get the speed, and you'll need to set your Router to Mixed Mode rather than G if it has that setting. I can't remember since it's been so long since I've used one of those - I've got a WRT600N Dual-Band router these days.
You're better off getting an N router if you're going to get an multi-standard adapter (like an AGN adapter). Your current router can only muster 54mbps - N devices operate above 100 routinely. My own network connection averages around 140mbps on the 5ghz band. The signal and range is a lot better as well.
If you decide to look, stay away from the WRT610 - it had problems in a recent test. The 300N, 330N, and 600N are all top Linksys N units. -
blue68f100 Notebook Virtuoso
Get the 11n card. If they offer a dual band (agn) get it. I will allow you to move away from the crowded 2.4ghz bandwidth and give you more options.
Shopping for new laptop, wireless g or wireless N?
Discussion in 'Networking and Wireless' started by Stevoreno, Nov 22, 2008.