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

From	"M. John Matlaw" <mjlaw@invalid.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 14:15 -0400
Organization	A noiseless patient Spider
Message-ID	<j40f7d$6ig$1@dont-email.me> (permalink)
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On 9/4/11 2:11 PM, nospam wrote:
> 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.
Less than 30 minutes and already avoided two potential purchasing 
errors.  Usenet, gotta love it.  Thanks

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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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