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1 Linksys 802.11n gear
The Wireless-N Broadband Router (WRT300N) is slightly smaller than Linksys? previous generation of routers.
2 Linksys 802.11n gear – Antennas
The WRT300N includes two standard antennas and a paddle antenna.
3 Linksys 802.11n gear – Ports
The WRT300N includes a four-port 10/100 switch.
4 Linksys 802.11n gear – Antennas – 2
All three antennas are adjustable. We spent a good deal of time tinkering with placement to maximize performance in our tests.
5 Linksys 802.11n gear – LEDs
LEDs show which wired ports are in use, whether the Internet is accessible, when wireless traffic is present and if wireless security is enabled.
6 Linksys 802.11n gear – Wide channels
We could manually select whether to support 40MHz channels–called wide channels here.
7 Linksys 802.11n gear – Security Irregularity
For some strange reason, Linksys calls the newest security levels PSK. So, WPA2 PSK is PSK2 Personal, while WPA2 Enterprise is called PSK2 Enterprise.
8 Linksys 802.11n gear – Before 802.11n
A look at the spectrum in our office before we started the WRT300N, courtesy of AirMagnet?s Spectrum Analyzer 2.0.
9 Linksys 802.11n gear – After 802.11n
The swept spectrogram in the bottom middle shows the noise the WRT300N makes. And this is just the beacons, folks.
10 Linksys 802.11n gear – Ultrawideband
This is how the spectrum analyzer interprets the new 40MHz channels.
11 Linksys 802.11n gear – WPC300N – 1
The Wireless-N Notebook Adapter (WPC300N) looks like an ordinary PCMCIA card.
12 Linksys 802.11n gear – WPC300N – 2
When we popped off the top, we found that the adapter has three antennas as well.
13 Linksys 802.11n gear – Quality of Service
The WRT300N supports WMM (Wi-Fi Multimedia), and we could prioritize latency and jitter sensitive applications.
14 Linksys 802.11n gear – High performance spectrum
This is how the spectrum looked once we started blasting some traffic through the WRT300N.