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ferrandu

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Registered: 2011-01-17

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router with wifi G wifi B transmission

Hiya people

I have a router with the option to stablish the wifi connection using the standard G, the standard B or the bot (B and G)

Who is the difference between select the MIX transmission or select only the G transmission?

Have a mix transmission can affect the efficiency of the connection?

the router is a linksys WRT54G

thanks

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Re: router with wifi G wifi B transmission

What's your concern? Both standards work at the same frequency. 802.11g is backwards compatible with 802.11b afaik, but you'll have to look very hard to find 802.11b stuff nowadays.

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DKnight

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Registered: 2010-12-23

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Re: router with wifi G wifi B transmission

G is 54Mbps and b is 11Mbps. If you are in mix mode you can have g and b devices in the same network. Problem is, if you hook up a b device, the *entire* network will drop to b mode, so it's bad for your faster g devices.
B devices aren't that hard to find. The Nintendo DS is a b device for example.

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Re: router with wifi G wifi B transmission

I was talking about modern stuff. You can't really claim 2004 is modern.

He should say why he's asking, I see little point in discussing 802.11b/g when he just says he has a router that can do both. Plenty of people have that kind of hardware...

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ferrandu

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Registered: 2011-01-17

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Re: router with wifi G wifi B transmission

thanks to the both

I think I was finding an answer like DKnight answer

I understanded the difference

thanks again