[ale] Buy your wifi routers now...

[Derek Atkins]

Alex Carver <agcarver+ale at acarver.net> writes:

> On 2015-09-10 07:50, Derek Atkins wrote:
>> Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com> writes:
>> 
>>> AC does not by default imply ALSO BGN. Its a difference in radios not
>>> protocol. Pretty much everything supports B as it's the oldest and
>>> slowest and
>>> usually a fallback mode. GN is not always found on AC devices. Most high-end
>>> will do everything. The cheap bottom end won't. 
>> 
>> I guess it's just me -- my AP (note AP, not "router") set me back about
>> $150-200 and it supports ac and abgn.  At least I'm 99% sure it supports
>> that.  I was specifically looking it.
>> 
>> My laptop is ac-capable, and iwconfig on it claims "802.11abgn" at
>> 5.745GHz, and apparently 585.1 Mb/s (which definitely implied ac!).
>> 
>> -derek
>
> How many antennae does your AP have (assuming it has visible external
> antennae)?  All of the multi-spec APs here at work have at least six
> antennae on them (some newer ones are fully enclosed, can't count the
> antennae).

They are internal, so... don't know.  It's a D-Link DAP-2660.
C.f. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16833127556

-derek
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