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Originally Posted by General Maximus
thanks for providing the link to a search result from Cisco which pretty much backs up what I said:
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Funny how you picked the 5th result down on that page, one from Cisco Press quoting a third-party article, not by Cisco or any of their own employees. It's a rather non-technical article that doesn't contain any hard information.
Nonetheless notice at no point do they say they will slow down
all devices or cause any device other than that which is G only to operate at G speeds. There is undeniably a performance impact but it remains completely untrue that having an older device will force all devices to run at the older device's speeds. This is just a excessively repeated urban myth.
Perhaps you should read one of the other results, slightly more relevant:
Performance Impact of an 802.11n Capable Access Point in a Mixed Environment
Which describes exactly how and why backwards compatibility impacts performance. But notice again that at no point do they say all devices will be stuck at G speeds or that the whole network operates at the speed of the slowest device.