[aklug] Re: New NETGEAR R6300v2 AC 1750 Router

On Wed, 2 Oct 2013, Jeremy Austin wrote:

> Good point; I was forgetting that 3x3 MIMO existed in the 802.11n era. I
> think I only ever bought one 3x3 AP, and you're right, I've never seen a
> 3x3 client. Hard to do that in a laptop, and desktops? I shudder to think
> of the monstrosity such a PCI-E card might be.

:-) I'd question whether a laptop or desktop could even saturate a 802.11ac
3x3 connection.

> Good points. There was a big jump from g to n in real-world usability. I
> was less impressed by the jump from b to g; also the g era was fairly
> short. I think I started installing 2.4 back in the tail end of the b days,
> but we had many b clients to support for a few more years. All gone now.
>
> So far I've been happy with n for backups, because I do mine offsite over
> DSL, where the DSL is the limiting factor. Can see why it would slow you
> down though.

I have to support some Apple timemachine backups on my network. I would
hate life if I had to do that for a school or an enterprise with a large
number of clients.

Rsyncing some Linux client's wasn't a big deal on 802.11g, after you got
through that first backup pain.

> My geek crush on their equipment is itself crushed by the price. I should
> look up some comparison benchmarks: does 5x price equal 5x performance?

Ah, but I'm pretty sure mine fell off a truck in the Bronx, though. Got it
off of ebay for $250, a quarter of normal retail. I called the company,
though, and verified that it was a legitimate unit that had never been sold,
and it was.

To be fair, though, if you look at the management capabilities of it, it's
phenomenal. I'll never use a fraction of it, but it's got some hard core
features. One of the key things that I love is per-WLAN priority queueing
and dynamic per-user/per-WLAN rate limiting. I never have to worry about a
single station drowning all the other stations out. Never worked as well
trying to do that on my router after the WAP.

         --Arthur Corliss
           Live Free or Die
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Received on Wed Oct 2 11:40:46 2013