I need some advise from the Experts here.... Since I don't keep up with all the new Network developments.
Since the wife and I have a bunch of new toys that can use wireless, so, I finally upgraded my 4 year old Router.
I just got a Linksys EA4500 - N900 Router since the price dropped from 199.99 to 159.99.
In the past I setup two networks - One for "G", 2.4 GHz and another for "N", 5GHz because on my old Router if I just had one mixed network the one device that connected with "G" would slow down the entire network for the laptops etc. with "N" adapters.
I'm not sure if the new Routers support a true mixed dual band and I can just setup one mixed Network for all our wireless devices without it defaulting to the slower "G" speed.
So, out of habit I did setup two separate networks one for "G" and another for "N".
All the "G" devices that would not see the "N" network were connected the the "G" network at 54 GBps.
So, tonight I did something different and changed the 2.4GHz "G" network to "Mixed"...
And now my mini laptop, tablet and cell phones which still only detect the 2.4GHz network are running faster at 65-72GHZ.
My main concern is that my DVD player gets a strong "N" signal for streaming movies from Netflix while the slower devices are connected to the network.
Any advise would be appreciated here..
Since the wife and I have a bunch of new toys that can use wireless, so, I finally upgraded my 4 year old Router.
I just got a Linksys EA4500 - N900 Router since the price dropped from 199.99 to 159.99.
In the past I setup two networks - One for "G", 2.4 GHz and another for "N", 5GHz because on my old Router if I just had one mixed network the one device that connected with "G" would slow down the entire network for the laptops etc. with "N" adapters.
I'm not sure if the new Routers support a true mixed dual band and I can just setup one mixed Network for all our wireless devices without it defaulting to the slower "G" speed.
So, out of habit I did setup two separate networks one for "G" and another for "N".
All the "G" devices that would not see the "N" network were connected the the "G" network at 54 GBps.
So, tonight I did something different and changed the 2.4GHz "G" network to "Mixed"...
And now my mini laptop, tablet and cell phones which still only detect the 2.4GHz network are running faster at 65-72GHZ.
My main concern is that my DVD player gets a strong "N" signal for streaming movies from Netflix while the slower devices are connected to the network.
Any advise would be appreciated here..
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