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ASUS Guarantees Draft-N Upgradability
Glenn Fleishman writes, "One of the most irritating things about draft-n wireless gear being released this year is that there have been no guarantees from any chipmaker or manufacturer that today's devices — loosely based on the IEEE 802.11n Draft 1.0 — will be upgradeable through firmware to the final standard. Several computer makers now bake draft-n adapters into their laptops as an option, which is even more troublesome. Today ASUS, which uses the Broadcom chipset, said that they will swap out hardware if necessary for any draft-n gateways and adapters they ship until the end of 2006. If firmware upgrades aren't enough, they'll replace your hardware, with you paying just the shipping. Of course, they're guaranteeing compatibility with the March 2008 expected ratified version of 802.11n, but it still means that you won't be left with equipment that only works well with itself."
It was X2 vs. KFlex. Neither really won---both kind of were combined to form V.90.
Yea, but only if you dont care about distances. The only thing I have liked so far about the Draft-N devices is the throughput you get at greater distances. Sitting directly in front of the router my throughput was still only about 32Mbps on average (65 max in small, infrequent bursts) but was getting 2Mbps throughput at a distance where I couldnt even see my 802.11a router.
Nobody? OK no cream.
Fuck asus and their promises. I have their router that is suppose to support an external HD and bittorrent. Well gues what? It works like shit, it works so bad it is completely useless.
Connect a HD to the router? All your files will be acessible from the outside via an anonymous FTP connection. NO FUCKING WAY TO TURN IT OFF. Also be prepared for the router to completely stop responding at random times if it has a HD connected.
Every torrent I tried to download never even started downloading. They just sat there.