[TriLUG] interoperability: 802.11g and n

[OlsonE at aosa.army.mil]

I have a wrt610n at the house, and am using a mix of g/n devices with no issues. If memory serves me right, the n devices are going off the 5ghz band, and not the 2.4ghz band that the g devices are using (i.e, my wrt610n is dual-band). It does not run dd-wrt easily, unless you want to play around with jtag/soldering wires and a power inverter so you do not fry your serial connection.

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From: trilug-bounces at trilug.org [mailto:trilug-bounces at trilug.org] On Behalf Of Joseph Mack NA3T
Sent: Thursday, October 01, 2009 10:47 AM
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Subject: [TriLUG] interoperability: 802.11g and n

I want to link some 802.11g networks. Presumably I can use 
repeaters or a point to point WDS, but I was wondering if I 
can put an 802.11n router somewhere in there and use its 
mesh routing to relay packets like it was a regular ethernet 
router. I can't find much about 802.11n with google (any 
pointers?) so I'm pretty clueless as to what n does 
and if it's interoperable with g.

I see that dd-wrt runs on some 802.11n devices. I saw one 
posting which said that for an 802.11n box to talk to a g, 
that g has to be enabled on the n box. Does this mean that 
the n router is just a g box after that?

Thanks Joe

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