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07:44 - Monday 28 November 2005 by THG Reporting Team
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The Technologies - Atheros other

Figures 5 and 6 show the innards of the NETGEAR RangeMax router and card, which don't appear to use the VLocity chipset.

Figure 5: NETGEAR RangeMax router board
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I can't say for sure what's used in the router, since the FCC ID pictures aren't clear enough. But by using the pictures from the WPN311 PCI version of the RangeMax client, it looks like the RangeMax client uses Atheros' AR5005GS single-chip Super G solution, which hopefully is giving them some nice margins from a lower manufacturing cost and relatively high product price.

Figure 6: NETGEAR RangeMax card
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Figures 7 and 8 show the board and unique six element antenna used by the Ruckus Wireless AP and client. Once again, the pictures aren't clear enough for me to be certain as to which Atheros chipset is used, but I'm guessing that it's something in the same 5005 series used by the NETGEAR RangeMax.