Time Capsule

[TranceNW]

Hi guys

Just a quick Q.

We have two windows machine which are wireless B / G compatible and a mac which is wireless N.

They are all connected to the TC, working fine. I was wondering if the TC has automatically switched to B / G mode instead of N, which is slowing down the wireless connection to my mac? Or can it handle both wireless types at the same time?

Thanks in advance

 

[DoFoT9]

because you have the B/G wireless devices the TC will be using 2.4ghz mode, meaning that N is slowed down significantly.. instead of being 300mbps, it will only be around 150mbps. B/G will still be their normal self (G=54mbps, B=11mbps).

 

[TranceNW]

Thanks for clearing that up DoFoT9.

I think I will start upgrading my adaptors to wireless N then.

Thanks again.

 

[skorpien]

An alternative to upgrading all of the adaptors would be to buy a b/g router and set either it or the Time Capsule to act as a bridge, then setting the Time Capsule to transmit wireless-N only, creating a dual band network. N devices connect to the TC, b/g devices connect to the other router, and all are on the same network (different SSIDs, same subnet, only one router doing DHCP).