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What is the nature of Wirless N and Dual Band?
Hello, I have just purchased a WNDR3700 and I am figuring out how to set it up. I have only had experience with Wireless G and I would like to know more about Wireless N600 and Dual band. I'm assum...
The router has 4 aerials. 2 for each frequency range (2.4GHz & 5GHz).
You can configure the SSIDs for each identically or differently. Personally I have set them up differently on a DGND3700 and now on a WNDR3800. This allows me to distinguish clearly between the two and since they are both from the same router there is no benefit in using the same SSID for both.
As both the 2.4GHz and 5GHz channels use different aerials, the speed which they work at is independent of each other. So you could set up the 5GHz to work at 300mbps and the 2.4GHz at 144mbps if you wish.
If you have the means, I would suggest that you set up a simple test. Copy a large file from a NAS drive to a computer with a WiFi n adaptor. See how fast it copies at. Then perform the same test using a WiFi g computer.
Finally repeat the test with both computers copying the file.
I did find that copying files from the USB port on the DGND3700 was never as quick as the NAS and on a similar test with the WNDR3800, the result was also slow.
You can configure the SSIDs for each identically or differently. Personally I have set them up differently on a DGND3700 and now on a WNDR3800. This allows me to distinguish clearly between the two and since they are both from the same router there is no benefit in using the same SSID for both.
As both the 2.4GHz and 5GHz channels use different aerials, the speed which they work at is independent of each other. So you could set up the 5GHz to work at 300mbps and the 2.4GHz at 144mbps if you wish.
If you have the means, I would suggest that you set up a simple test. Copy a large file from a NAS drive to a computer with a WiFi n adaptor. See how fast it copies at. Then perform the same test using a WiFi g computer.
Finally repeat the test with both computers copying the file.
I did find that copying files from the USB port on the DGND3700 was never as quick as the NAS and on a similar test with the WNDR3800, the result was also slow.