Wireless-N: Worth It?

[kwong2006]

Is it worth it for me to buy a Wireless-N network for my home? I heard it is faster, but some here said it is not.

 

[janey]

Is it worth it for me to buy a Wireless-N network for my home? I heard it is faster, but some here said it is not.

you should probably wait until it's not a draft anymore, but honestly..no point if you don't have all 802.11n devices.

i'd like to upgrade, but gigabit ethernet is so much more tempting and I have a mixed b/g environment that doesn't really matter to me.

 

[Fearless Leader]

ahhh gigabit ethernet. such sweet goodness. N is defidently faster longer range blah blah blah, but as said its still draft so wait.

What pisses me off is that the airport extreme is still 100megabit.

 

[Yoursh]

Only do it if everything in your house is running wireless-n. If you only have one router in your place running n, it will step down if anything running g connects to it. Everything would run at g speed.

Otherwise you would need to run 2 routers. One running a n network and one running g.

 

[janey]

Everything would run at g speed.

Actually that's a myth. What really happens is instead of falling to the theoretical max speed of 54mbps for 802.11g, the speed of the n-connected devices would become slower, but will not go as slow as g-speed.

 

[Tacos!]

Is it worth it for me to buy a Wireless-N network for my home? I heard it is faster, but some here said it is not.

Unless you are constently moving large files over a network or have a extremely fast internet connection, I wouldn't recommend it. To be honest, if you have a decent wireless router, there is no point to upgrade at this time.
-Justin