Obviously to get N speeds, both the wireless access point and the hardware connected to the wireless access point need to have the N standard.

But will a wireless N access point improve speeds/range at all on wireless G hardware?

Before I was running a DSE 4 port adsl2+ wireless router and my PS3 had signal strength of 45%. I just replaced this with a new Vodafone BB Complete wireless adsl2+ router and am now getting 75% signal strength. The ps3 is only b/g.... not N.

Just wondering if the increase in signal strength is because the new router has the new N wireless standard or if it's just because some G routers have better signal strength than others? Both routers are in exactly the same place.