wireless N backwards compatible with G??

Soundguy · May 26, 2009

Cool, thanks guys.

I've also never heard of the A... I used to have a B network in the house.. uh.. years ago.. I got my G router a couple years ago at home and was surprised to see it saw the old B devices.. which i upgraded to G for speed... My home laptop is thus G and that worked out good as I could take it to work where it is G as well.. Now I know the new laptp should work at work AND home.. DOUBLE bonus.

thanks again.

soundguy

Wis Bang · May 29, 2009

Soundguy said:
Cool, thanks guys.

I've also never heard of the A... I used to have a B network in the house.. uh.. years ago.. I got my G router a couple years ago at home and was surprised to see it saw the old B devices.. which i upgraded to G for speed... My home laptop is thus G and that worked out good as I could take it to work where it is G as well.. Now I know the new laptp should work at work AND home.. DOUBLE bonus.

thanks again.

soundguy

I bought an A/B/G adaptor for my thinkpad and I've never seen A. I think only early wireless corp offices used A.

funkydaddy59 · May 29, 2009

I'm writing this reply on a N laptop which is sending to a G router.

Wombat125 · May 29, 2009

802.11a was the first 54 Gbps wireless network standard, but never really gained market penetration.

It does have an advantage in some manufacturing/industrial environments since it operates in the 5 GHz band and is slightly more resistant to RF interference than the b/g/n variants which operate in the 2.4 GHz band. The 2.4 GHz band is shared with cordless phones and microwaves and all sorts of other electronic paraphernalia.