I expect Cisco to eventually also jump on the bandwagon with some sort of single-stream router, although they probably will use a different marketing term because, well, they’re Cisco.īelkin, however, has decided to boldly go where no one else will and has both its N150 Wireless Router and companion N150 USB adapter on store shelves. D-Link has a "Wireless 150" router (the DIR-600) "coming soon", but also doesn’t have a companion adapter. NETGEAR has also jumped on the "N150" bandwagon with its WNR1000, but is not selling a companion N150 client card. But more importantly, since single-stream routers are not recognized in the 802.11n specification and the Wi-Fi Alliance currently won’t certify them (or single-stream draft 11n clients), they are not guaranteed to work with Certified draft 802.11n clients. First, they provide no performance enhancement when used with 802.11b/g clients, since they must fall back to standard b/g protocols when communicating with those clients. The rub comes when manufacturers also promote these products as providing some sort of enhanced performance over 802.11b/g.
(This latest exercise in consumer misdirection is described in more detail in Buyers Beware! Single Stream Draft 802.11n Products Bring Back Spec Spin.) The basic premise of these products is to take single-stream draft 802.11n hardware that currently can’t be Wi-Fi Certified for Draft 802.11n and promote it as 802.11b/g compliant (and usually b/g Wi-Fi Certified). I have been writing about pseudo-draft 11n routers since Cisco came out with its now-discontinued Linksys WRT100 and its WRT110 replacement.
– Belkin N150 Wireless USB Network Adapter ( F6D4050 v2) – Belkin N150 Wireless Router ( F6D4230-4 v2) Introduction Updated : WAN DHCP problem and 802.11b support
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