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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...
jmizoguchi
May 27, 2012Virtuoso
CharlieKatz wrote: 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 ?
difference is 2.4Ghz and 5Ghz. still single network and you can only use either band for wifi devices has support both bands. wifi device will not use both bands at same time at all.