I bought a wireless N router this week at the Circuit City closing sale because my signal hardly gets upstairs. With a range advertised as 10X, I thought the new router would do the trick. I was initially disappointed to see that the number of bars in the signal was the same as the old Wireless-G. But then DSL Speed tests revealed that the speed of WWW downloads and uploads was indeed faster at a distance. I could not easily find this information onlinefrom a neutral reliable source (CNET had not reviewed either of my wireless G routers, and this is one of the many kinds of queries that current search engines are useless with --search for 

rangemax next wireless-n range versus wireless-g, or rangemax next wireless-n range wireless-g comparison), so here are the results of my testing? 

 

From my desk upstairs using Netgear RangeMax NEXT Wireless-N router:

2058 Kb/s download

200 Kb/s upload

60 ms latency

 

2^nd time:

1929 Kb/s down

410 Kb/s up

41 ms latency

 

With 2Wire HomePortal 1000HG same time same place:

Down: 870 Kb/s

Up: 410 Kb/s

Latency 34 ms

 

2^nd time

Down: 977 Kb/s

Up: 204 Kb/s

Latency: 82 ms

 

W/ Wifi to D-Link WBR 1310 from my desk upstairs:

Latency 42 ms

2358 down

207 up

 

2^nd time:

54 ms latency

213 Kb/s down

28 kb/s up

 

Sonic.net says it's supposed to be:

1.5mbps-3.0mbps Download

384kbps-512kbps Upload

 

W/cable to Netgear RangeMax:

64 ms latency

Down 2447 Kb/s

Up 415 Kb/s

 

D-Link WBR-1310

w/cable

37 ms latency

Down 1304 Kb/s

Up 414 Kb/s

 

W/Wifi to Netgear RangeMax from 3 feet away:

59 ms latency

2436 Kb/s down

403 Kb/s up

 

W/Wifi to D-Link WBR 1310:

89 ms latency

2193 Kb/s down

428 Kb/s up