HDTV Almanac - End of the Draft!

[alfredpoor]

Last Friday, the IEEE finally ratified the 802.11n specification. You may find this to be a big yawner, but it really has some important implications for HDTV.
802.11n is the latest in the varients of the 802.11 specifications, which are commonly known as WiFi. 802.11b was the original and most common. 802.11a and 802.11g are about [...]

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[Roger Halstead]

Darn, I was hoping for a good speed increase. Actually this is a big increase for most home wireless networks, but my system is CAT6 Gigabit (wired) which I still find slow with 5 computers backing up across the network. With a 15 Mb internet connection I often find streaming video to be intermittent. It's the internet, not the connection. OTOH I can be transferring files across the network and playing video from another computer without a fuss. Now if that 802.11n was 150 MB instead of 150 Mb<sigh>

[alfredpoor]

"More Power! Oooh oooh oooh!" I understand the need for more. About the only solution that I can suggest is that you get fiber optic and hope that they can keep making the pipe bigger as you fill it.

The bottom lines is that "N" will make home WiFi as fast as most home networks. (Not everyone has upgraded to Gigabit Ethernet yet.) And that should be sufficient for most users, including HD content from the Internet.

But there will always be some of us who want more bandwidth. Give us more! MORE!!!

Alfred