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Re: Airport Extreme or Express with IEEE 802.11n draft specification

From nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid>
Newsgroups comp.sys.mac.comm, comp.sys.mac.hardware.misc, comp.sys.mac.system
Subject Re: Airport Extreme or Express with IEEE 802.11n draft specification
Date 2011-09-04 11:11 -0700
Organization A noiseless patient Spider
Message-ID <040920111111303268%nospam@nospam.invalid> (permalink)
References <j3vtlm$fkt$1@dont-email.me> <1k72icu.1035n9sd7px7oN%nmassello@yahoo.com> <j40ean$108$1@dont-email.me>

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In article <j40ean$108$1@dont-email.me>, M. John Matlaw
<mjlaw@invalid.invalid> wrote:

> >> I was looking into getting either an Airport Extreme Base Station or an
> >> AirPort Express with dual bands.
> >
> > The AirPort Express Base Station is "dual band" only in the sense that
> > it can operate in the 2.4GHz _or_ 5GHz band, but not both at the same
> > time. The Extreme can do both simultaneously.
> 
> Ah, that helps a lot.  The only reason I'm interested in dual-band is 
> that I have older macs using 802.11b and it was my understanding that 
> when using one channel, speeds for all devices would be slowed down to 
> the lowest level used by any one device on the network.  Sounds like 
> I'll be looking for an Airport Extreme base.  Thanks.

the dual band is 2.4gz b/g and 5gz n-only. if you use b, it will slow
down g. 

in your situation, you should get a used b router for next to nothing
for the b devices. they're dirt cheap.

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Airport Extreme or Express with IEEE 802.11n draft specification "M. John Matlaw" <mjlaw@invalid.invalid> - 2011-09-04 09:15 -0400
  Re: Airport Extreme or Express with IEEE 802.11n draft specification Michelle Steiner <michelle@michelle.org> - 2011-09-04 06:42 -0700
    Re: Airport Extreme or Express with IEEE 802.11n draft specification "M. John Matlaw" <mjlaw@invalid.invalid> - 2011-09-04 11:20 -0400
      Re: Airport Extreme or Express with IEEE 802.11n draft specification Michelle Steiner <michelle@michelle.org> - 2011-09-04 08:53 -0700
        Re: Airport Extreme or Express with IEEE 802.11n draft specification "M. John Matlaw" <mjlaw@invalid.invalid> - 2011-09-04 13:05 -0400
          Re: Airport Extreme or Express with IEEE 802.11n draft specification nmassello@yahoo.com (Neill Massello) - 2011-09-04 11:38 -0600
          Re: Airport Extreme or Express with IEEE 802.11n draft specification Michelle Steiner <michelle@michelle.org> - 2011-09-04 15:39 -0700
  Re: Airport Extreme or Express with IEEE 802.11n draft specification nmassello@yahoo.com (Neill Massello) - 2011-09-04 11:38 -0600
    Re: Airport Extreme or Express with IEEE 802.11n draft specification "M. John Matlaw" <mjlaw@invalid.invalid> - 2011-09-04 13:59 -0400
      Re: Airport Extreme or Express with IEEE 802.11n draft specification nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2011-09-04 11:11 -0700
        Re: Airport Extreme or Express with IEEE 802.11n draft specification "M. John Matlaw" <mjlaw@invalid.invalid> - 2011-09-04 14:15 -0400
        Re: Airport Extreme or Express with IEEE 802.11n draft specification Michelle Steiner <michelle@michelle.org> - 2011-09-04 15:37 -0700
          Re: Airport Extreme or Express with IEEE 802.11n draft specification Tom Stiller <tom_stiller@yahoo.com> - 2011-09-04 19:52 -0400

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