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May 1, 2008

PC World Happy with Results of Current Draft N Gear

By Glenn Fleishman

PC World runs Draft N routers through their paces, and generally gives them high marks: The magazine found three categories of routers now on the market, too: sub-$90 routers that had lower performance (and lack gigabit Ethernet, I should note); mid-range models (running around $150) that have gigabit Ethernet and high Wi-Fi throughput; and $180 to $200 dual-band routers that can handle 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz. (Only a couple routers handle both bands at the same, by the way, and they’re much more expensive.)

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Corporate IT Concerned about 802.11n

By Glenn Fleishman

IT managers at the Interop conference tell Computerworld they’re not seeing 802.11n’s benefits yet: I’m not sure how naive the IT folks quoted in this article are when one says that the speed isn’t near the hype. I don’t care if 802.11n is nowhere near “300 Mbps” as long as its throughput is five times that of 802.11g (near 100 Mbps versus 20 Mbps). However, PoE (Power over Ethernet) is a bigger and real concern. The devices on the market can’t all function at full performance without more power than current PoE systems provide. There’s a new PoE upgrade on the way, however.

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