Playstation 3 vs Netgear DG834N in "270mbps 'N'" mode

[stormy]

Not Karoo's fault for a change, *shock*

It seems my PS3 hates this router and I am beginning to regret the purchase of the router already.

If I have the DG834N in "270mbps 'N'" mode the PS3 performs terribly with it, wireless transfers are about half the speed of the 'G' mode and I am constantly losing network connections when I am playing online games.

The signal strength is usually 80+ although does sometimes seem to dip to 70-75 briefly now and again, it doesnt matter if the DG834N is in 'N' or 'G' mode.

At the moment I can happily leave it in 'G' but it means buying a 'N' adapter for my PC is rendered almost useless because I wont be able to use it without the PS3 issues.

Is it a Sony issue or a Netgear issue? I wonder if either care?

Any ideas?

[bashdabish]

I have used a TG585N and a Thomson wireless N adapter and found the same throughput issues. I was getting a 1/4 in terms of throughput compared to using g standard with the same equipment.

Wireless N it seems is not quite there yet.

[stormy]

Yeh, I have decided to return the DG834N to Amazon as its useless as an 'N' router for me if it wont play with my existing kit, going to just get a cheapo 'G' router which I know works fine with the PS3, will wait till 'N' is ratified and see how backwards compatibility is then.

Netgear basically told me tough, thats normal operating with Draft 2.0. 'N' is supposed to be backwards compatible though so its all a bit rubbish.