What exactly is nerfed when you have G clients on an N network?

What exactly is nerfed when you have G clients on an N network?

What happens? Do all the wireless clients convert to G mode connections?
Or do they remain N and something happens to the bandwidth?
Does something happen to the range of N clients?

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Nerfed? Is that like borked?

Compared to an all "N" network, it will be slower because the "G" take longer to service.

In a mixed mode network: ( 802.11g and 802.11n )

The router:

• transmits and receives in mode n;
• temporarily switches to receive in mode g;
• communicates with the mode g device if it hears one;
• switches back to mode n;
• transmits and receives in mode n;
• et cetera, et cetera, et cetera...

while it listens in the lower speed mode, traffic backs up on the higher speed nodes.

mixed nodes are inherently slower than fixed high speed modes due to this switching and listening, even if there is no low speed mode traffic.

So what happens when there are 2 or more N clients connected. Does it "switch" to listen to each client as with the G mode switching? Is there a client limit before it becomes less than "300Mbps theoretical"?

So if you just have say 1 N client and 1 G client, would it be the same nerf/bork as having 2 N clients?

Does the router hardware power make a difference? i.e. it can run much faster than the clients can transmit...thus reducing the impact of having multiple clients or mixed clients? Or perhaps this is impossible because "300 Mbps" represents some sort of continuous perfect stream bombarding the antenna?

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Either G or N. More clients. Speed ​​will be slow.