Wireless-N - who's winning the wars?

I'm in the process of setting up a new wireless system for a small medical
office, and am contemplating which wireless-N router to use. DLink and
Linksys are immediately available, so they are at the top of my list. Which
one to choose? thankx.

In article <FiOAh.76167$Y6.43644@edtnps89>,
dar7yl <no_reply@accepted.org> wrote:
>I'm in the process of setting up a new wireless system for a small medical
>office, and am contemplating which wireless-N router to use. DLink and
>Linksys are immediately available, so they are at the top of my list. Which
>one to choose? thankx.

I don't know. But in the past, Buffalo Tech has made routers that are
more stable than DLink or Linksys. Check the reviews at Amazon.com,
for example. I too am thinking about upgrading to Wireless-N. But I
will wait for Buffalo Tech. In fact, I will wait for some user
feedback to accumulate. The magazine and website reviews do not
suffice. They never give sufficient weight to stability issues.
--
David Arnstein (00)
arnstein+usenet@pobox.com {{ }}
^^

David Arnstein wrote:
> In article <FiOAh.76167$Y6.43644@edtnps89>,
> dar7yl <no_reply@accepted.org> wrote:
>> I'm in the process of setting up a new wireless system for a small medical
>> office, and am contemplating which wireless-N router to use. DLink and
>> Linksys are immediately available, so they are at the top of my list. Which
>> one to choose? thankx.
>
> I don't know. But in the past, Buffalo Tech has made routers that are
> more stable than DLink or Linksys. Check the reviews at Amazon.com,
> for example. I too am thinking about upgrading to Wireless-N. But I
> will wait for Buffalo Tech. In fact, I will wait for some user
> feedback to accumulate. The magazine and website reviews do not
> suffice. They never give sufficient weight to stability issues.

Be aware that the IEEE certification of the 802.11N specification is now scheduled to be completed
in September 2008. That is _NOT_ a typo - it is 19 months from now. Any pre-N device your buy now
may or may not interoperate with N devices from some other manufacturer. That said, the current
version of the spec is probably close enough to adjust the differences in firmware, but with the
deliberations secret, who knows.

Larry

On Thu, 15 Feb 2007 01:33:21 GMT, Larry Finger
<Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net> wrote in
<BLOAh.3138$5j1.261@bgtnsc04-news.ops.worldnet.att.net>:

>David Arnstein wrote:
>> In article <FiOAh.76167$Y6.43644@edtnps89>,
>> dar7yl <no_reply@accepted.org> wrote:
>>> I'm in the process of setting up a new wireless system for a small medical
>>> office, and am contemplating which wireless-N router to use. DLink and
>>> Linksys are immediately available, so they are at the top of my list. Which
>>> one to choose? thankx.
>>
>> I don't know. But in the past, Buffalo Tech has made routers that are
>> more stable than DLink or Linksys. Check the reviews at Amazon.com,
>> for example. I too am thinking about upgrading to Wireless-N. But I
>> will wait for Buffalo Tech. In fact, I will wait for some user
>> feedback to accumulate. The magazine and website reviews do not
>> suffice. They never give sufficient weight to stability issues.
>
>Be aware that the IEEE certification of the 802.11N specification is now scheduled to be completed
>in September 2008. That is _NOT_ a typo - it is 19 months from now. Any pre-N device your buy now
>may or may not interoperate with N devices from some other manufacturer. That said, the current
>version of the spec is probably close enough to adjust the differences in firmware, but with the
>deliberations secret, who knows.

The problem is that 802.11n is just now at Draft 1.10, is expected to go
to Draft 2.0 in order to address core issues in prior drafts, and is not
expected to be adopted until mid-2007, with final approval hopefully
before the end of 2007, although further delay is certainly possible.

I personally wouldn't buy any "draft N" product that isn't _guaranteed_
to be upgradable at _no_ cost to final N.

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