ok. we currently have an 8mb connection (however its actually 15mb lucky us according to speedtest) and a wireless g router, and wireless g usb network adapter i know that is quite old technology, but what will i actually gain from upgrading to 'n'? it claims speeds of up to 150mbs i think, is that just the transfer speed from your comp to the router or what. because obviously it wont improve your actual broadband connection, so how is it superior over the older 'g' technology? i was under the impression that N would only be better if you actually had a fast connection, like 50mb+. will it offer significant improvements whatever speed your broadband is? OH ALSO: i do know one improvement (i think) - isnt N's range considerably further? so you will get better signal but im mainly interested in speed and what this claimed 150mbs actually is
If you're going for N you might as well go for dual band 300mbps model. The advantages are less signal interference due to operating on 5ghz band instead of the often saturated 2.4ghz band, and increased local network transfer speeds. Increased range may be a side effect, but is generally just down to improvements in N chips and antennas on better new wireless gateways and wireless nics.
It's worth if it you move files between computers on your network, or stream audio/video from your pc to another device. If you've basically got a network for devices to get on the internet, until your internet connection speed goes above about half what your wireless network kit is rated at (g's 54 Mbps, I think) you wouldn't see a difference at all really.
I'm using half as a rule of thumb about what speed you'll actually see in real life, too. So stuff rated at g 54 Mbps I've had as usually connected at half that, the n stuff I have rated at 150Mbps works at 72. You really only get the rated speed if there's nowt solid between the connecting devices.
I used to (until thursday last week) use a '300Mb' wireless connection, the speed I actually got (with very strong signal) was only actually about 10MB/s which is 80Mb/s. So don't be expecting anything great! If your streaming 1080p or decent quality 720p movies around your network (in particular to consoles which have very poor network cards, or for large files) wire up your network with some Cat5e/6
If you only use wireless to get internet access and G is fast enough you may as well save your money. If range or bandwidth is an issue then upgrade. Sent from Bittech Android app
