In companies, wireless networking serves multiple purposes: Free wireless for corporate visitors, media streaming for the marketing department to a conference room, and a hot spot in the cafeteria, for example.[ See further coverage: Is 802.11n ready for the enterprise? ]In most cases, these Wi-Fi offerings are slim, burdened by slow speeds and poor coverage.But what if you really need a premium connection at the fastest speeds possible running to the far corners of the building with airtight, industrial-strength encryption?With the current crop of Cisco, Netgear ProSafe, Juniper Networks, and ImageStream products, you will find part of the answer. You will find 802.11g wireless routers that tend to run too slow, although they do support bridging, which helps extend the signal. And you will find super-fast 802.11n access points running as high as 130Mbps, but they have limited range — only about 300 feet in some instances — and do not support bridging, so you can’t extend the signal. The speed vs. range conundrumFor example, many 802.11g routers, such as the Belkin Wireless Pre-N F5D8230-4, do support bridging, but throughput only runs at 40Mbps. Routers like the Linksys Wireless-N WRT300N support fast throughput — as high as 120Mbps under ideal… Read full this story
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