ASUS Adds Draft 11n Gigabit Router

ASUS has announced a new single-band draft 802.11n router with Gigabit Ethernet WAN and LAN.

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New To The Charts: D-Link DIR-685 Xtreme N Storage Router

The D-Link Xtreme N Storage Router (DIR-685) has been added to the Router and Wireless Charts.

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Router Without A Reason: Belkin N150 Wireless Router Reviewed

Consumer networking makers are pitching single-stream draft 11n routers as better buys than 11g. But if Belkin's N150 router and USB client are any indication, it's just another case of marketeers' wishful thinking.

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MetaGeek Brings Back $99 Wi-Fi Spectrum Analyzer

It looks like the recession may have spurred the originator of inexpensive Wi-Fi spectrum analysis to roll back its pricing for 2.4 GHz WLAN spectrum analysis.

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Linksys by Cisco WRT160NL Wireless-N Broadband Router with Storage Link Reviewed

Cisco decided it was time to produce a draft 11n router for hackers. But there is little other reason to pay a premium price for it.

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Does Wi-Fi MultiMedia (WMM) Really Do Anything? - Part 3

In Part 3 of our series, we find no help from WMM for media streaming.

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Does Wi-Fi MultiMedia (WMM) Really Do Anything? - Part 2

In Part 2 of our series, we actually see the elusive WMM beastie in action!

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Does Wi-Fi MultiMedia (WMM) Really Do Anything? - Part 1

We begin our quest to try to reap the benefits of this wireless QoS technology that has been around since 2004.

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ZyXEL Introduces Dual-band Draft 802.11n Biz AP

ZyXEL has introduced a dual-band draft 802.11n wireless AP / WLAN controller targeted at business applications.

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D-Link Adds Dual-Band Draft 11n Outdoor AP

D-Link today announced what it described as its first commercial grade draft 802.11n exterior access point.

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802.11n Headed for September Ratification

SmallNetBuilder has learned from a reliable source that the final issues in 802.11n have been resolved in this week's meeting of the IEEE TGn in Montreal.

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Mvix Announces Tiny Single-Stream Draft 802.11n Adapter

Mvix today announced what it claims is the world’s smallest "Wireless-N" adapter.

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D-Link Ends 802.11b Feedback Experiments

D-Link today informed SmallNetBuilder that it has ended D-Link's "feedback" gathering exercise on 802.11b for its DIR-655 and DIR-825 draft 802.11n routers.

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D-Link Offers Another 802.11b Disable Opportunity

D-Link appears to still be attempting to get feedback about users' willingness to disable 802.11b capability in return for access to bugfixes for another of its popular draft 802.11n routers.

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D-Link Backs Off From 802.11b Removal Experiment

D-Link has removed the controversial DIR-655 1.30 "Beta" firmware from its support site and posted version 1.31. The new firmware makes no mention of removing 802.11b, but is still non-downgradeable.

The company apparently wants to pretend that the whole incident did not happen, since it has removed any references to the 1.30 "Beta" firmware from its release notes and has not released any statement on its "feedback" exercise.

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