[TriLUG] interoperability: 802.11g and n

[Greg Brown]

If you want a 802.11n router/device to talk to 802.11g only devices that
same device will have to "talk" 802.11g.  So any router/mesh device
interconnecting in an existing 802.11g network will itself have to be
802.11g.

On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 10:46 AM, Joseph Mack NA3T <jmack at wm7d.net> wrote:

> 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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