Originally Posted by
AnalogMan
To xyzzy, do you have any 802.11n equipped mobile devices? If not, do you plan to acquire them in the near future? If not, I think you should hold off on the draft-N AP purchase. They are still relatively expensive while 802.11g ones are fairly inexpensive. You can probably buy an 802.11g now, wait until you actually have 802.11n mobile devices, then upgrade to an 802.11n AP and spend roughly the same money as buying a draft-N AP now. Just my opinion of course.
It's a long story. I need to upgrade the network at my kids' (small) school. The current access point is reaching the end of its life. It requires occasional reboots and it becomes wedged every week or so. Since I'm not there, this is rather annoying. We're also upgrading everything else to gigabit ethernet (to better facilitate booting Linux machines over the network). I'd like to get something that will work for a few years, and given the large files we often move around I thought an 'n' box would be a good idea. It sounds as if we should limp along through the end of the school year (another week or so) and look at what's available in the fall.