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Summary of Test Results

10:30 - Friday 8 April 2005 by THG Reporting Team

If you've made it this far, you deserve a summary to pull the essential information from all those charts and graphs! Here's a table similar to the one I created for the Linksys SRX review.

Summary of RangeMax Test Results
The Test	The Result	Comment
Speed vs. Range compared to standard 11g		Performed better than Broadcom-based standard 11g
Speed vs. Range compared to True MIMO		About the same in indoor tests. Not as good as True MIMO on outdoor tests
Performance with mixed RangeMax / 11g STAs		11g STAs suffer significantly reduced throughput for Broadcom-based STA tested.
Performance with mixed RangeMax / True MIMO STAs		Very even bandwidth sharing in both uplink and downlink. But close-range True MIMO STAs can cause high throughput variation in both STAs.
Performance with mixed RangeMax / 11b STAs		Significantly reduced 11b throughput for uplink, better for downlink. But active 11b STA causes high throughput variation for active RangeMax STA
Performance improvement when RangeMax client used with 11g APs		If you're using standard 11g gear, you may see some improvement, but little if upgrading from Super-G stuff.
Performance improvement when RangeMax AP used with 11g STAs		Some improvement for downlink, but with high throughput variation
Key: = Good = Mixed results = Poor