[ale] Buy your wifi routers now...

[Derek Atkins]

Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com> writes:

> AC does not by default imply ALSO BGN. Its a difference in radios not
> protocol. Pretty much everything supports B as it's the oldest and slowest and
> usually a fallback mode. GN is not always found on AC devices. Most high-end
> will do everything. The cheap bottom end won't. 

I guess it's just me -- my AP (note AP, not "router") set me back about
$150-200 and it supports ac and abgn.  At least I'm 99% sure it supports
that.  I was specifically looking it.

My laptop is ac-capable, and iwconfig on it claims "802.11abgn" at
5.745GHz, and apparently 585.1 Mb/s (which definitely implied ac!).

-derek

> On Tue, 2015-09-08 at 10:18 -0400, DJ-Pfulio wrote:
>
>         In general APs that support 802.11ac are often backwards compatible to abgn.
>
>     Are other standards impacted by the backwards compatibility?
>     For example, wifi-N is slowed by G and B, if enabled.
>
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