[ale] Buy your wifi routers now...

[Derek Atkins]

Alex Carver <agcarver+ale at acarver.net> writes:

> On 2015-09-04 03:11, Paul Cartwright wrote:
>> 
>> On 09/04/2015 02:55 AM, Raylynn Knight wrote:
>>> These use MediaTek SOC which may still have some performance issues
>>> with 5Ghz band
>> 
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>>  > Buffalo WHR-1166D
>> I'm not up on all these standards.. the 1166 says: 802.11ac
>> 
>> is there an issue with NOT having BGN ??
>
> Yes, if you have hardware that doesn't support AC then an access point
> that is missing B/G/N will be pretty useless.  For example, a lot of
> smartphones don't support AC but are still in use.

In general APs that support 802.11ac are often backwards compatible to abgn.

-derek

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