WLAN Filters at Newegg confusing

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Eric Stork

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I would ask this there but navigating their Help section got me lost.

So I am looking through their site using filters to view Routers and Computers, I notice their WLAN filters are these:

802.11a/b/g Wireless LAN
802.11a/b/g/n Wireless LAN
802.11ac Wireless LAN
802.11a/g/n Wireless LAN
802.11b/g Wireless LAN
802.11b/g/n Wireless LAN
802.11g Wireless LAN
802.11g/n Wireless LAN
802.11n Wireless LAN
IEEE 802.11a
IEEE 802.11a/b/g/n

Other places I go to either just use 1 letter or do not even have this many. I would like to know why there are so many choices, I will need to find a Router with N level for new computers but able to handle G also for an older one on the same network. I never see this on other sites.

Why are there so many categories?
 
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Because they are lazy and just extract random data from the descriptions rather than make the search lists manually.

Although in theory a vendor might make a router that supports only 802.11n but not 802.11g I have not see a device. Almost all even support 802.11b which can cause huge degradation if you run in a mixed mode. The only one I suspect you would need to worry about is if you needed 802.11a. This one only runs on 5g and a dual band 802.11n router would support 802.11a but a single band 802.11n router would not.

I would have to dig through the spec to see if they use the phrase MUST SUPPORT in the standard for 802.11n in regards to the old protocols. I suspect since all router I have seen do support the old protocols...
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bill001g

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Because they are lazy and just extract random data from the descriptions rather than make the search lists manually.

Although in theory a vendor might make a router that supports only 802.11n but not 802.11g I have not see a device. Almost all even support 802.11b which can cause huge degradation if you run in a mixed mode. The only one I suspect you would need to worry about is if you needed 802.11a. This one only runs on 5g and a dual band 802.11n router would support 802.11a but a single band 802.11n router would not.

I would have to dig through the spec to see if they use the phrase MUST SUPPORT in the standard for 802.11n in regards to the old protocols. I suspect since all router I have seen do support the old protocols there is likely a requirement in the ieee 802.11n-2009 standard.
 
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