Need Wireless-N card to boost Wireless-N router range?

First off hello everyone and apologies if this is redundant, as I
skimmed back a couple of weeks and couldn't find anything on this topic.


We have a rather large spread on our property, and had a little tussle
over placement of our Wireless G router (Lynksys). I've read enough
about Wireless-N to know it would be a good opportunity to upgrade and
convinced our landlord to do so.

However I'm not seeing any noticeable difference in terms of the
network range after installing the Linksys WRT150N - I'm still stuck at
about 100 feet with a direct line of sight, which is no difference from
the previous router. I have little concern for speed as our local cable
internet maxes out at 600 KB/s regardless, so I figured we would be set
to go with our existing wireless cards.

My question then is - is it necessary to install Wireless N cards in
our laptops to improve the range? Can't find much on this topic through
Google.

Thanks


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You probably can't find anything, since it isn't true... You are either
imagining things, only reding stuff posted by idiots, or listening to
the salesfolks.....

If you are using the existing cards, you won't be able to use n (pre n)
anyway, it will drop to b/g compatibility mode and not do any n stuff
anyway


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On Nov 5, 3:37 am, Bryan <Bryan.2zk...@no-mx.wirelessforums.org>
wrote:
> First off hello everyone and apologies if this is redundant, as I
> skimmed back a couple of weeks and couldn't find anything on this topic.
>
> We have a rather large spread on our property, and had a little tussle
> over placement of our Wireless G router (Lynksys). I've read enough
> about Wireless-N to know it would be a good opportunity to upgrade and
> convinced our landlord to do so.
>
> However I'm not seeing any noticeable difference in terms of the
> network range after installing the Linksys WRT150N - I'm still stuck at
> about 100 feet with a direct line of sight, which is no difference from
> the previous router. I have little concern for speed as our local cable
> internet maxes out at 600 KB/s regardless, so I figured we would be set
> to go with our existing wireless cards.
>
> My question then is - is it necessary to install Wireless N cards in
> our laptops to improve the range? Can't find much on this topic through
> Google.
>
> Thanks
>
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> View this thread:http://www.wirelessforums.org/showth...lessforums.org

Yesterday I have asked the same question at a local computer store
and a salesman explained me kindly that a Wifi-N card is not boosting
wifi signal, multiplexing data packets toi be sent, between 3
antennas, increasing speed by a factor of 3 not a range.
To increase a range try to install better gain outdoor antennas.
If I am wrong, please correct me.

Darius