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Originally Posted by John Doe
Sorry, what i meant is that if you want one of their 108mbps wireless access points it (almost) has to be the router because they dont do a 108mbps access point as a stand alone bit of hardware
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If I understand correctly, you want 108Mbps wireless in an office environment. I can see two problems with this -
1. IIRC 802.11g works at the speed of the slowest broadcaster in range. In the home you can usually guarantee that you control all the wireless cards and can make sure they are all Netgear 108Mbps cards. In an office, it only needs one person with a built-in 802.11b adapter on their laptop/PDA and everyone drops back to 11Mbps - could even be the 'war-chalker' outside!
2. In a home with one/two wireless cards you can get decent shared bandwidth. In an office with, say, 10 wireless users you supposed 108Mbps bandwidth is shared down to 10Mbps anyway. (not even sure that 54G will use 'turbo' mode in a large network, but I could be wrong here).
A couple of other points - unless you have a T1 WAN connection to share browsing isn't going to be any faster with 108Mbps wireless than 11Mbps (will be faster for file sharing and client/server apps) - and having worked in a well populated 802.11b office environment there is little noticeable difference to the user than using a 100Mbps switched LAN.
In summary, I don't think it would be good marketing to aim 108Mbps wireless at the business segment.
HTH.