source for wireless N information?

I, like many others on this forum, have a bunch of questions for wireless N. I would really think it would benefit the community if someone were to make a thread on everything about pre-N (to be stickied hopefully).

Until that happy day though.. does anyone know of a good website that provides information on Pre-N? e.g. what is its lowest and highest frequency, does channel bonding/MIMO intrude on wireless G or B's frequencies?, is pre-N a software change? or do routers with pre-N have different hardware and software? if so, why does pre-N need different hardware?

I have a very large house (it was cheap; it's fixer upper, I'm not actually rich ), and I don't want to use a repeater to get my wireless signal around. Would pre-N get my signal that extra 10-20 meters of coverage I need?

 

Even if it's not quite N yet, anything that's MIMO will help you crank out that extra bit of coverage. I'm pretty sure anything that's N or Pre-N is MIMO as well.

Once you try MIMO, you never go back.

 

Depending on your setup high gain antennas can do that.

 

high gain antennas eh.. are these antennas that plug into my router and need extra power from a wall outlet and boost the signal? If so, that would be excellent.

I did look into upping my router's antenna output in the WRT settings, but, as you probably know, that would drastically reduce the lifetime of the router.

 

No extra power required for antennas.

You could try ethernet over powerline. I have used 2wire in the past. It works pretty good but a little pricey. Any place you have a power outlet you can have ethernet service.