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We received the Asus G73Jw laptop which has the Bigfoot Killer Wireless N 1102 card preinstalled for the purposes of this review. For a list of machines that are sold with the new wireless Bigfoot hardware, please visit this link. In regards to pricing, we were told that The N1102 costs just under €30, which will be reflected in the price of the laptop.
The G73Jw is an attractive machine and we reviewed a similar model a while ago, you can read it over here. The machine we received for this review was a German model, which give us some language oriented headaches during testing.
As detailed on the previous page there are two Killer Wireless N cards. The N 1102 (above left) and the N1103 (above right). The Asus laptop has the N 1102 installed, which will be the mainstream model.
The Killer Wireless N 1102 can handle the following data rates:
IEEE 802.11a 6 – 54 Mbps
IEEE 802.11b 1 – 11 Mbps
IEEE 802.11g 6 – 54 Mbps
IEEE 802.11n 6.5 – 300 Mbps
It works with both Windows 7 32 bit and 64 bit. It can support dual band, 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz, with 2 stream MIMO and IEEE standards based 802.11a/b/g/n in a half size mini PCIe form factor. The design also steps power consumption down when not in use. The speed is rated at a maximum of 300 Mbps.
We have covered the excellent Bigfoot software before, but we thought we would post a few pictures of the German software above.
We are using a borrowed Linksys E4200 Router for this review. Wireless hardware was held at a distance of around 30 foot from the router for all the results.
