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Today's router market is more confusing than ever. A, B, G, Super G, ExtremeG, MIMO, MIMO X2, N, Pre-N, SRX, SRX2, SRX 400, SuperBooster extended...blah blah blah. What do they all mean? I will tell you that the only standard at the moment is B, G, and MIMO. Many of these routers are claiming to have wireless speeds as high as 400 mbps. That is 400 megabits per second! Which is 4 times faster than the average 100mbps Ethernet connection we have today. We all know that actual field conditions and interferences will never allow routers to hit their full potential. But do they even come close? The regular Wireless G standard of 802.11g promises a maximum speed of 54mbps. In reality, the better products only perform at 25mbps. That is a nearly a 50% performance loss! Pre-N wireless routers currently on the market are boasting speeds of 200-600mbps but the fastest one we've found so far only transfers data as fast as 105mbps! Tons of companies are claiming that their products will perform at speeds as high as 300mbps solidly. For now, don't believe any of the hype because they're aren't any consumer grade products that come even close to that. Walls in your home and wireless devices and tons of other electronic devices cause a lot more degradation in your signal quality than you think. The good thing however, is that most people don't even need anything faster than 10mbps transfer speed and today's broadband internet providers only have downstream speeds of 800kbps average in most areas. The conclusion: Buy a stronger router if you want something faster than you already have but don't expect it to perform anywhere near as well as it claims on the box. You have been warned!
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