Stupid question about Wireless N.

Will a "draft-n" router work with a "pre-n" notebook card at speeds higher than g?

-Thanks.

 

I doubt it, unless they are made by the same company, and have compatibility for both.

Pre-n was just technology developed by individual manufacturors to boost signal speed and range, and it was only compatible with other products from the same manufacturer. Different manufacturers will have different ways of boosting speed.

Draft-n, is more of a universal standard layed out for all manufacturers to follow, and it will not be the same as pre-n technology (although some aspects might be similar).

If your card and router have the same manufacturer then mabye the router has pre-n as well as draft-n compatibility

 

it should work, but it may only connect at 54g, to my knowledge most devices fall back to 54g compatability or if you have connecting problems you a have to force 54g from the card.

so it shold work but probably not at pre-n speeds

 

IF you are pairing a draft-n card with its same brand draft-n router, the whole idea is to get better speeds at given ranges. There wouldn't really be any point to spending the money if the two things did not claim to get better range/speed than 802.11g

 

In the latest issue of Maxium PC they tested the Belkin N1 wireless router and card.And found that in the same room as the router the speed was 129.7Mb/s,25 feet away from the router with the usual obstructions the rate dropped to 72.7Mb/s and at 75 feet away it went down to 62.3Mb/s still pretty good.While being advertised at 300Mb/s.Buffalo's NFINITI Draft-N wireless router was 27.1Mb/s NOT WORTH THE INVESTMENT.And the IEEE 802.11 work group just sent it back to the drawing board so I would wait for a while before I would think about getting anything 802.11n that might not be inoperability with the new standard of 11n.

 

You do realise that 300Mbps ~ 37.5MBps, and that with a 30% overhead (common with TCP/IP) means that you'd get 26.25MBps speed, Reezin14? If you do know the difference between B and b, forgive my intrusion, but your numbers seem to be mirroring what should actually be expected, not an abnormal occurrence.
I do agree that you shouldn't buy pre or draft N hardware though, as the spec may change and be partially or wholly incompatible, making your expensive hardware worthless except on the a/b/g setups.

 

Thats NOT the question he is asking though. He is asking whether a "pre-n" router will work with a "draft-n" card. The answer it will not work at greater than "g" speeds. Since "draft-n" and "pre-n" are different technologies.

 

So true gethin he is just asking that, Pitabread I was just offering the info up so that if he did'nt know before he brought the gear he could make an informed decision and I do know the difference between B and b.