Edimax at the dawn of the n-era

In this article, four Edimax products are covered. Externally, these tools all follow the new path chosen about two years ago. At the time, many of the company’s network products changed design, and since then, each has been given a sleek design and white. Since we have already written some articles about the tools of Edimax, we will refer back to them as well, as we have already presented important points such as the user interface.

For this reason, we will give you a reference right away and suggest you read what is written there. This article was written in the spring of 2008, and we introduced the new EZmax interface, which debuted at the time, through which the settings of active network devices can be made with lightning speed, and most importantly, the settings include encryption, which allows us to protect our network from external devices. against intrusions.

The article can be read here: Edimax - wireless security is key!

If we are beyond an article, move on! The four devices we have now can be divided into two groups. Two were designated nLITE and the remaining two were designated nMAX. The main difference between the two groups is the presence or absence of Draft 2.0. As we wrote in our introduction, 2.0 devices essentially conform to the n standard, while the other two devices do not. They promise a slightly slower transmission bandwidth and a smaller range. This is because due to the delay in finalizing the n standard, many manufacturers began to produce devices that were faster than the old g standard, but since the n standard existed only in traces at the time, they could not comply with it. The figure below shows the differences in device performance.

The two nLITE devices are a USB network adapter and a 3G router, while both are labeled nMAX routers, and one of them also provides gigabit bandwidth on the wired ports.