[ale] Buy your wifi routers now...

[Alex Carver]

On 2015-09-10 07:50, Derek Atkins wrote:
> Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com> writes:
> 
>> AC does not by default imply ALSO BGN. Its a difference in radios not
>> protocol. Pretty much everything supports B as it's the oldest and slowest and
>> usually a fallback mode. GN is not always found on AC devices. Most high-end
>> will do everything. The cheap bottom end won't. 
> 
> I guess it's just me -- my AP (note AP, not "router") set me back about
> $150-200 and it supports ac and abgn.  At least I'm 99% sure it supports
> that.  I was specifically looking it.
> 
> My laptop is ac-capable, and iwconfig on it claims "802.11abgn" at
> 5.745GHz, and apparently 585.1 Mb/s (which definitely implied ac!).
> 
> -derek

How many antennae does your AP have (assuming it has visible external
antennae)?  All of the multi-spec APs here at work have at least six
antennae on them (some newer ones are fully enclosed, can't count the
antennae).