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Does an 802.11g Wi-Fi device slow down an 802.11n network?
I know it did so for 802.11b (if you had one .b device on a .g network, it slowed down to .b speeds). Is the same true for .n, if my .n network is single-band only (and thus has to be set to run on 2.4 GHz to be compatible to .g)?
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Yes. It will slow down to 0 mbps, since g is not compatible with n. If you have an n router it should also support g. In that case you will get g speeds if you are using a g device.
There are other reasons why you may have a slow down; poor signal strength, other devices on the network, or a slow down somewhere else in the data stream.
g is rated for 54mbps this is fast, you would have to be using a raid, or scsi server, or Japanese internet connection, or a local network mutiplayer game to need that speed.
There are other reasons why you may have a slow down; poor signal strength, other devices on the network, or a slow down somewhere else in the data stream.
g is rated for 54mbps this is fast, you would have to be using a raid, or scsi server, or Japanese internet connection, or a local network mutiplayer game to need that speed.
A wireless network will runs only as fast as the slowest device, i.e. an 802.11g equipped laptop will throttle down the overall data rate of 802.11n system. This why I chose not to allow my kid's DS Lite to connect to my 802.11g wireless network because the DS lite wireless network adaptor is set for 802.11b.
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Yes, the entire network will slow down to the speed of the slowest device. There are some ways around this, there are some routers (Apple's newest Airport Extreme is one example) which maintain completely separate n and g circuits, so that g devices will connect to the slower network and n to the faster.
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