Your office currently uses routers limited to IEEE 802.11g. To gain the greatest improvement in both speed and indoor coverage for modern client devices, which Wi-Fi standard should you deploy?
Keep using 802.11g because it already meets typical office needs.
Switch to 802.11a to extend range at the expense of speed.
Upgrade to 802.11ac for the best overall speed and range.
Upgrade to 802.11n for a moderate boost in performance and range.
802.11ac (Wi-Fi 5) operates only in the less-crowded 5 GHz band and introduces wider 80/160 MHz channels, higher-order 256-QAM modulation, more spatial streams and mandatory beamforming. These enhancements raise theoretical throughput to well over 1 Gbps and maintain stronger links at a given distance compared with 802.11g or 802.11n gear. While 802.11n can work on both 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz and offers better performance than 802.11g, its maximum speed (≈450 Mbps) is still far below 802.11ac. Legacy standards such as 802.11a, 802.11b and 802.11g cannot meet modern bandwidth demands.
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