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How-to: set up dual-band WiFi (and juice your downloads)

• lutorm 18y ago
  Except that even with my 2.4 802.11n, the DSL is far, far slower. Maybe this makes sense if you have a for-real wired internet, but even 802.11b can max out most residential internet...
  • sipior 18y ago
    Sure, but it has the potential to speed up backups and streaming media (between your hard disk and television) over wireless by quite a bit. Folks running dedicated media center PCs have a bit more flexibility now.
  • jrockway 18y ago
    It's now possible, even easy, to get 100Mbps Internet most places in the world (even the US), so a 54Mbps connection won't be adequate for much longer. FWIW, I used wired between my main computers, and only use wireless when people bring their laptops over or something. Gigabit is faster than even 802.11n. (Although, incidentally, my Thinkpad doesn't support jumbo frames, and hence it's about as fast as 100Mbps ethernet in practice. intel--.)
    • ivankirigin 18y ago
      I have Verizon FIOS w/ 20mbps upload. It rocks.