Belkin Offering Pre-802.11N Products

redshield3 writes "Belkin is offering what it is calling "pre-802.11n" products for mass consumers now. CompUSA is reportedly carrying these items in stores. They claim 800% range improvement over 802.11g as well as full backwards compatibility and the ability to continue pushing out n-speeds when a 802.11g or 802.11b device is introduced to the network."

Comments

Stuck at Pre-N

[IO ERROR]

The question to ask is, are these things field upgradeable when the 802.11n standard is final? The site doesn't answer this question. You could be left with a very expensive b/g router/AP.

Belkin / useless / redundant

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As someone who has a Belkin 802.11b router that never did work right, found their tech suport completely useless, and when I waited for a firmware fix to show up on the website eventually found that they replaced my hardware with V2 hardware and that the new firmware was only for V2, I would say you are optomistic to even expect the v1 version of this new Belkin stuff to work on day one, let alone worry about it being useless later.

The really sad thing is this will be bought by some people who think it's going to give them speed improvements, but who will never use their wireless links for anything more than connecting to their 1.5 mb/s DSL links, that even (a different brand of) 802.11b can do just fine.