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raven_squire
May 22, 2012Follower
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...
CharlieKatz
May 27, 2012Aspirant
Gulp -
okay can you take it down a notch ? a little more naive user friendly please ?
In my house - I will have ethernet lines to 2 printers, a GoFlex shareable drive, a Video DECA adaptor that relays a signal from DirecTV to provide ONDEMAND programming (not very good unfortunately) and wireless connections to 2 laptops an IPhone and an IPAD.
Does this constitute a single network ? Or is the idea to have two networks overlapping the house, so that the load can be balanced over two instead of loading up one ? Or is a "band" not a network, but rather something smaller ?
okay can you take it down a notch ? a little more naive user friendly please ?
In my house - I will have ethernet lines to 2 printers, a GoFlex shareable drive, a Video DECA adaptor that relays a signal from DirecTV to provide ONDEMAND programming (not very good unfortunately) and wireless connections to 2 laptops an IPhone and an IPAD.
Does this constitute a single network ? Or is the idea to have two networks overlapping the house, so that the load can be balanced over two instead of loading up one ? Or is a "band" not a network, but rather something smaller ?