802.11n Spec Still In The Air

Vitaly Friedman writes "Standards for the hotly anticipated Wi-Fi successor haven't yet been agreed upon. Where's that leave all those early-bird products? 802.11n is a highly anticipated successor to today's Wi-Fi, promising a huge performance boost. The draft spec promises to deliver data rates up to 180 Mbps, which could make wired home networks unnecessary and should allow high-definition wireless video streaming. At issue is whether the draft spec is far enough along that companies can make products that will provide that performance but still be compatible with each other and with older Wi-Fi equipment."

In the Air

[Nom du Keyboard]

802.11n Spec Still In The Air

Cute!
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Here we go again

[Linker3000]

Anyone care to recall the happy days of analogue modems and the pre-ratified 'standards': Courier HST, K56flex, X2 and all that?

It must be difficult to take the time to ratify standards when the manufacturers are forcing themselves out of the starting gate to meet customer 'I want it now' expectations.

Buying a 'pre-n', wifi enabled laptop with Blu-ra..er..HD-D...er...whatever... is the true mark of someone living on the bleeding edge.

Re:No Wires!

[Aqua_boy17]

I know, I can't wait until my neighbor upgrades so I can check this out. :P

Uh... That's only 0x9

[Anonymous Coward]

You still need either a reason 0) or A)!

Not directly related, but...

[Mick Ohrberg]

...what are we going to do when we run out of characters in the alphabet for the 802.11* protocols? Do like the tropical storm/hurricane name-givers and move to the greek alphabet? 802.11iota?

Re:It's a start, but I'm still waiting.

[babbling]

Who cares? I just want to know what's going to happen after they reach 'z'.

It rolls over

[nightsweat]

Once you hit 802.11z, it rolls over and all wireless connections have to ripped out in favor of 802.12 compliant 100Base standard wiring.

Let's pray it never comes to that.

WTF?? HERE'S THE LINK

[Anonymous Coward]

WTF? Why was this moderated as a troll??? Here's a link to the equipment. [netgear.com] They're claiming all of the things he stated including 300Mbps. He may have been joking, I don't know, but it definitely isn't a troll.