Do all 802.11n wireless routers work fine with MBPro?

[nerveosu]

I have a MacBook Pro with the 802.11n airport card. I want an n router to get a better signal across the floors of my home. I am considering getting something other than an Airport Extreme 802.11n base station.

Because n is a draft specification.. will all the n routers out there still be fully compatible with my MacBook Pro's card?

What 3rd party routers seem to work best?

[::Lisa::]

I'm using a Linksys router which isn't the n range and it works absolutely fine for me, I get full range mostly anywhere in my home.

[nerveosu]

Yeah.. I have a 3 story townhome with my office/cable modem on the top floor. My signal is strong on the lowest floor but I think I am dropping a bunch of packets with my airport extreme g because it takes a while to load web pages down there. So I want to go with n to see if I can get a clean connection down there. I have changed my channel and repositioned my base station too.

So do 3rd pary n routers work fine with apple airport extreme n cards?

[CANEHDN]

It will. Wireless routers and wired routers use standard protocols. This allows anything following the standards to be compatible.

[akonradi]

Most routers should work, but remember that 802.11n is a draft version. If a router is using a different draft of 802.11n, it might not be compatible.

[darwinian]

My purely anecdotal experience suggests that Netgear routers should be avoided (annoyingly difficult for my MBP that was running Tiger at the time) to connect) -- cannot remember the model number. However I've been running this D-Link n router with zero issues (well, discounting Leopard ones). DIR-615.

[twoodcc]

don't buy an airlink, no matter what