[Cialug] Mixing wifi 802.11 A,B,G,N

[Josh More]

I believe that the B+G issue was that the data types were incompatible.

N is basically G that's been multiplexed with different radios.  I'd
think that a G+N network should be fine, but a B+N network might still
have issues.



-Josh More, RHCE, CISSP, NCLP, GIAC 
 morej at alliancetechnologies.net 
 515-245-7701

>>> Nick Fox <nfox at foxmediasystems.com> 03/18/09 8:29 PM >>>
Matthew Nuzum wrote:
> Hi, a while back, when G came out and started taking the steam out of
> A, I heard that using B and G on the same network caused G performance
> to drop to the B level. This would have been the very early G days so
> I was wondering if with today's wireless networking if you have an N
> router and one each of B, G and N devices, will they all get their
> maximum speed or will some of them suffer a performance hit?
>
>   
Most consumer hardware does this. I have only come across one enterprise

product that doesn't. To clarify the point, it will only slow to the 
lowest speed device attached to the wireless network.

-- 
Nick Fox

Fox Media Systems, LLC
Owner / President
1338 57th St.
Des Moines, IA 50311
www.foxmediasystems.com

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