Comment Really-Low Power Medium-speed is cool too! (Score 1) 99
Sure, there are times that longer range is what you need, but there are a lot of applications for which Really Low Power is a real enabler, and 11 Mbps is plenty (while Bluetooth/BLE/Zigbee speeds may not be), plus being able to use one software stack instead of having to keep a Bluetooth one and a Wifi one or needing some badly designed hopelessly insecure IoT gateway box is a big win. 1kbps is enough to drive your lightbulbs, but if your refrigerator needs a software update or whatever, the higher speeds are useful.
I'm still using 3Mbps DSL at home (don't watch enough TV online to make 6Mbps useful), so 11 Mbps is fine, though I've upgraded from 802.11b to