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Chat Area => General Discussion Area => Topic started by: Taxi_Driver on 15 March 2012, 18:53:24
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I read somewhere that channel bonding isnt legal in europe...dunno...
However ive been upgrading my wifi network recently and changed my router to a Netgear DGN2200, which is a 300m wifi router.
I'd also bought a couple of cheap usb 300m wifi dongles. Now these were reporting a 300m download speed and 150m upload speed, with no mention of being able to channel bond anywhere in the drivers. So i was just assuming that coz im in europe the driver wont let you.
The other day i bought a Netgear WNCE2001, which is 300m bridge. I let it auto setup, after telling it a few details....i went back into its settings and to my surprise it was reporting 300m up and 300m down and using channels 11 and 7. So its channel bonding.....
I did notice the wnce2001 has its 'location' set to USA, but the dgn2200 is set to europe.
Thoughts??
PS i do know that 300m is the max theoretical speed.....i aint gonna achieve that in reality.
PPS i have noticed a noticeable increase in web browsing and streaming speed since upgrading from 54m wifi network :y
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It took quite a while for the Wireless N standard to be ratified, and in that time there were several ways of getting it to perform at 300 speeds (not all of which were successful).
As a result, older hardware may well not hit the 300 barrier.