http://www.pcworld.com/article/171859/superfast_wifi_standard_n_official_consumer_faq.html

about damn time

9/13/2009 4:32:58 PM

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"On the bright side, Davis-Felner says any certified draft n product will work just fine with future wireless n products."

i wish people would have realized this from the start and not freaked out about buying draft N stuff

9/14/2009 7:54:53 AM

^ seriously, i fielded quite a few "WILL IT ALWAYS WORK!?!" questions

9/14/2009 8:21:59 AM

i still think they should have tweaked it to make it incompatable with the draft spec just to be dicks.

9/14/2009 9:32:33 AM

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"i wish people would have realized this from the start and not freaked out about buying draft N stuff"

while we know this now, we didn't know this three years ago.

9/14/2009 10:06:01 AM

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"i still think they should have tweaked it to make it incompatable with the draft spec just to be dicks."

9/14/2009 10:46:06 AM

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"while we know this now, we didn't know this three years ago."

i think it was a pretty safe bet that the IEEE wouldn't make the draft stuff obsolete unless they absolutely had to

9/14/2009 11:44:49 AM

Who is to say they might not have hit some hurdle where they couldn't make it compatible?

9/14/2009 11:50:14 AM

^hence the "unless they absolutely had to"

9/14/2009 12:20:08 PM

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"i still think they should have tweaked it to make it incompatable with the draft spec just to be dicks."

9/14/2009 1:02:19 PM

Well no fucking shit evan. The point still stands, for 99.5% of the population, there was simply no reason to buy N ahead of time.

9/14/2009 3:02:41 PM

there is precedent to be wary of incompatibility between standard and pre-standard implementations of protocols.

802.3af - many pre and post standard PoE switches and PDs can't talk to each other. Some implement both, though but not all.
802.1s - pre and post standard MST implementations can't talk to each other. I've seen many a network melt down due to this.

9/14/2009 3:45:59 PM

^good point. i stand corrected.

9/14/2009 6:32:51 PM

^^

POE is such a crap shoot.

9/14/2009 6:47:41 PM

but when it works properly, it's a godsend in certain situations

9/14/2009 9:02:48 PM

I need a router now. I don't follow wireless technology very closely. This whole n protocol is news to me. All I know is these n draft 2.0 routers are out there now and claim to be the best. So, is there any reason NOT to get one?

9/14/2009 11:40:29 PM

nope. definitely go for a dual radio model if you can, though.

9/15/2009 1:06:49 AM

I just got one of these and love it
http://catalog.belkin.com/IWCatProductPage.process?Product_Id=459640
they're $80 at target

9/15/2009 7:51:18 AM

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"about damn time"

9/15/2009 8:37:16 AM

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"but when it works properly, it's a godsend in certain situations "

true. trying to get people at work to understand you can run power over "DAT SAMEEE WAAIRE" was quite interesting.

[Edited on September 15, 2009 at 8:39 AM. Reason : a]

9/15/2009 8:39:39 AM

^ haha true that. What's funny is that they've been unknowingly using inline power their whole lives if they've ever used POTS, which most people still have.

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"POE is such a crap shoot."

honestly, other than incompatibilities between standard and pre-standard devices and the occasional software bug, I've rarely seen PoE just completely fail to work (even with multi-vendor implementations).

At least at the enterprise level.

[Edited on September 15, 2009 at 9:07 AM. Reason : asfd]

9/15/2009 9:04:59 AM