If you recently moved or had new Internet services installed in your home, you may have seen a 5G WiFi version of your Home Network. For example if your Network Name is JohnsonFamily, you’ll see JohnsonFamily & JohnsonFamily 5G as an available wireless network. Over the last few years, Wireless N has grown in popularity being the strongest and widest-range signal available. Well Wireless-N has some impressive competition itching its nose into the race.

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When Bluetooth was first being introduced, it quickly grew to Bluetooth 2.0, then 3.0 with hopes of 4.0 giving more features and access. Same goes with Wifi; we are now entering the 5th generation of Wi-Fi similar to being on the 4th Generation [4G] of wireless growth. As always, the technology is backward-compatible meaning your ‘old’ N technology will work with 5G and visa versa; N being backward compatible with g,b & a. Meaning you could go out after reading this, purchase a 5G Wi-Fi router and all your existing devices, laptops, iPods and so on, no matter how old, will still connect to your network. Connecting is easy, however for them to run at 5G speeds they’ll need support from the manufacturing end, which will become the industry standard in 2013. Expect speeds 3x faster than Wireless-N capability.

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