New Linksys Router with SRX

[TXHookem]

Anyone used one of these yet?
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[TheYoungHorn]

Don't have one, but the graphic has convinced me.

 

[Bottom Line]

Marketing BS.

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[TXHookem]

I would tend to call BS on that graphic but it sounds like the range, regardless of the marketing hype, is much better.

 

[KMcCoy33]

Actually was about to buy one of these today. I did a ton of reading on the Pre-N stuff. Read about this Linksys one, the D-Link DI-624M, the Belkin one, and the expected Netgear model. Right now there are two company's doing Pre-N stuff, both different. So your D-Link pre-N cards would work with your Linksys Pre-N router and vice versa. They are using two different technologies that aren't compatible. By the mid 2006, the industry is supposed to have adopted an industry standard wireless N. From what I can tell the Pre-N stuff selling right now is just kind of a marketing ploy while the wireless N topic is hot because when the industry standard N is released, none of these products will be compatible unless they somehow come up with some major firmware updates that seem very unlikely unless the currently technology from one of them is 90% of what becomes the standard, and even then you are flipping a coin. A couple of tech sites even labled it as "disposable technology" since they it really is only going to be used for about a year, maybe two at the max and then you wouldn't be able to do anything with it as far as upgrading since it won't be compatible with the new stuff. The routers are supposed to extend your range some even with standard G and B technology cards, but no one is really sure how much since each environment is so different.

 

[Gadfly]

I'd buy it for the distance - not for the speed. Isn't it true that most or your bottleneck is likely coming from your isp?

I guess the further you get, your wireless router can get you down to 1mbps, and the more an issue it becomes. If you're getting 11 Mbps all the time, you probably don't need to upgrade.

 

[KMcCoy33]

It looked like the distance is good, but most of the people only tested it with the SRX laptop card. I only read mention of how it was supposed to increase distances for non-pre-n devices. I'm sure it increases some, but I don't know how noticable it would be for the money. I think I'd rather buy a range extender or something like that.

 

[mishatx]

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[UTinBigD]

Unless you are streaming DVD res video between computers, then yes, the speed will not make difference. Even G is good enough to stream DVDs.