NETGEAR WAG511 Dual Band Wireless PC Card Reviewed. netgear wag511 dual band wireless pc card reviewed. Now that tri-mode dual-band wireless cards are here, it's hard to see why companies will buy anything else to equip their legions of laptops. Read our review...

• -Features
• -How many AP's does it take to test a tri-mode card?
• -Wrap Up
• -Wireless Performance
• -Performance - 802.11a

WAB102 and WAG511 802.11a throughput (click on the image for a full-sized view) Figure 5, which is taken from the WAG511 review, shows the 11a performance obtained from using both a second generation AP and client. If you compare it to the earlier plots, you'll...

The AP was set to its default mode for all tests. Figures 20-23 show the results. Figure 20: Mixed mode test - WAG511& Linksys WPC11 v3 (click on the image for a full-sized view) Figure 21: Mixed mode test - WAG511& NETGEAR WAB501 ( forced to 11b) (click...

throughput - Belkin F5D7010 (Broadcom) (click on the image for a full-sized view) Figure 11: Condition 1 11g throughput - NETGEAR WG511 (Intersil PRISM GT) (click on the image for a full-sized view) Figure 12: Condition 1 11g throughput - NETGEAR WAG511...

see Xpress' advantage, I decided to put that testing aside until I discuss test techniques with Broadcom. 11b Protection I also ran my closest-range Condition 1 tests on NETGEAR WG511 (Intersil GT), and NETGEAR WAG511 (Atheros 5001X+) cards with the AP's 11b...