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Help me decide: ASUS RT-N16 or Netgear WNDR3700?
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<blockquote data-quote="blr_p" data-source="post: 1777001" data-attributes="member: 10952"><p>On its own 5 Ghz has more bandwidth so its a faster transfer but the caveat is it travels less as its attenuated more than 2.4 Ghz. It allows you to seperate the slow devices from the faster ones. Fewer people have dual band routers so interference is less. You will have to experiment.</p><p></p><p>Apple as a matter of policy does not do 40Mhz wide in the 2.4 Ghz band, only in the 5Ghz. So throughput is reduced as a consequence. Other manfacturers that get wifi certified have to provide 'coexistence mechanisms' in their firmware to the effect that the moment they detect another wifi network they scale back to 20 Mhz mode. Note that not all vendors actually comply eg.TP-LINks default to 40Mhz. That's how they get better throughput than others for cheaper. But 40 Mhz means you take up two channels out of 3 so its a congestion issue. No networks around enjoy your 40Mhz otherwise forget it. You will be interfering with others and they with you and both will suffer.</p><p></p><p>Thing with this wireless business is its like the cable wallah broadband of yore ie a shared bandwidth. The more devices you have hooked up doing things the less bandwidth they ALL will have available to them at the given time. Like contention ratios etc. You might have great link speed like promises of 'upto' this or that speed but your throughput starts to suffer. So 5 Ghz allows you to play in a different space for certain latency unfriendly applications. 5 Ghz starts to make its case when you already have lots of wireless devices in the house. Way things are going i think its only a matter of time. More tablets, smartphones, laptops, intelligent appliances, your neighbours wanting to have wifi etc. </p><p></p><p>One thing you won't have to worry about is the delivery of the extreme as it can manage a consistent transfer at 5 Ghz or so say its reviews. The cheaper routers tend to fudge the 5 Ghz in exchange for 2.4 Ghz. You want 5 then pay up otherwise stick with 2.4.</p><p></p><p>Distance is really your only determining factor or not as in your case I notice the way you've set up that the pc is wired and its only the laptop that is wireless. </p><p></p><p>The real distance for the transmission is your router to the laptop and delivery coming through wires from your desktop. You have an instant advantage right there as the wireless signal only travels half as far. As opposed to both pc & laptop being wireless which would have included an extra hop and cost you in performance.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="blr_p, post: 1777001, member: 10952"] On its own 5 Ghz has more bandwidth so its a faster transfer but the caveat is it travels less as its attenuated more than 2.4 Ghz. It allows you to seperate the slow devices from the faster ones. Fewer people have dual band routers so interference is less. You will have to experiment. Apple as a matter of policy does not do 40Mhz wide in the 2.4 Ghz band, only in the 5Ghz. So throughput is reduced as a consequence. Other manfacturers that get wifi certified have to provide 'coexistence mechanisms' in their firmware to the effect that the moment they detect another wifi network they scale back to 20 Mhz mode. Note that not all vendors actually comply eg.TP-LINks default to 40Mhz. That's how they get better throughput than others for cheaper. But 40 Mhz means you take up two channels out of 3 so its a congestion issue. No networks around enjoy your 40Mhz otherwise forget it. You will be interfering with others and they with you and both will suffer. Thing with this wireless business is its like the cable wallah broadband of yore ie a shared bandwidth. The more devices you have hooked up doing things the less bandwidth they ALL will have available to them at the given time. Like contention ratios etc. You might have great link speed like promises of 'upto' this or that speed but your throughput starts to suffer. So 5 Ghz allows you to play in a different space for certain latency unfriendly applications. 5 Ghz starts to make its case when you already have lots of wireless devices in the house. Way things are going i think its only a matter of time. More tablets, smartphones, laptops, intelligent appliances, your neighbours wanting to have wifi etc. One thing you won't have to worry about is the delivery of the extreme as it can manage a consistent transfer at 5 Ghz or so say its reviews. The cheaper routers tend to fudge the 5 Ghz in exchange for 2.4 Ghz. You want 5 then pay up otherwise stick with 2.4. Distance is really your only determining factor or not as in your case I notice the way you've set up that the pc is wired and its only the laptop that is wireless. The real distance for the transmission is your router to the laptop and delivery coming through wires from your desktop. You have an instant advantage right there as the wireless signal only travels half as far. As opposed to both pc & laptop being wireless which would have included an extra hop and cost you in performance. [/QUOTE]
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