US Robotics Routers?

Anyone have any experience with these in a home network environment?

Supposedly they will allow a mixed environment of some "B" and some "G"
devices to operate at their designed speed instead of dropping back the
entire network to the "B" capability.

Pegleg

Hi
I do not know in specific about the USR. Newer Wireless Router do not revert
entirely to 802.11b, there are differences in how much "Hit" the 802.11g
takes in presence of 802.11b, but there is always a "Hit".
Client 802.11g cards are so inexpensive these day that there is No reason to
compromise on buying mediocre Wireless devices.
In addition usage of 802.11b usually reduces the security configuration to
WEP, which is currently Highly insecure.
Jack (MVP-Networking).

"Pegleg" <> wrote in message
news:...
> Anyone have any experience with these in a home network environment?
>
> Supposedly they will allow a mixed environment of some "B" and some "G"
> devices to operate at their designed speed instead of dropping back the
> entire network to the "B" capability.

Jack \(MVP-Networking\).

In wireless technology only one host can communicate with a WAP at a time.
They have to take turns. So when it is "B's" turn to communicate it sends
the packet,..because B is slower it takes more time for the Packet to
complete the trip which causes the other to have to waite,...hence it slows
down the WAP.

The only thing I can think of is if the WAP has dual radios and uses two
different channels so the B's can work over a different channel than the G's
which might allow them to transceive at the same time or near the same time.
You may still take some hit in performance.

I don't know anything about the USRs but that is about the only thing I can
think of that they might be doing,..and it is just a guess.

--
Phillip Windell
www.wandtv.com

The views expressed, are my own and not those of my employer, or Microsoft,
or anyone else associated with me, including my cats.
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"Pegleg" <> wrote in message
news:...
> Anyone have any experience with these in a home network environment?
>
> Supposedly they will allow a mixed environment of some "B" and some "G"
> devices to operate at their designed speed instead of dropping back the
> entire network to the "B" capability.

Phillip Windell

On Fri, 28 Sep 2007 14:07:01 -0400, "Jack \(MVP-Networking\)."
<> wrote:

>Client 802.11g cards are so inexpensive these day that there is No reason to
>compromise on buying mediocre Wireless devices.

I realize that however I use a PDA wirelessly that is only capable of
..11b. Both laptops we use are .11g. I have done some "unscientific"
observations by watching the speed indicated on the laptops both before
and after I get on the wireless network with my PDA and see no change.

Of course I have no idea as to how accurate the speed indicator is in
the XP(Home) system. With a .11g router I see anywhere from 18 Mbps to
54 Mbps on the laptops depending on where I am in the house. Signing in
with the .11b PDA seems to result in no changes.

Pegleg