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Wireless Networking at 72Mbps

Posted by Hemos on from the going-super-fast dept.

Unknown Relic writes "One of the biggest drawbacks to current wireless networking technologies is the limited connection speed. Well now LinkSys has released a new wireless access point which operates on the 5 GHz band, supports up to 72 Mbps connections and is fully interoperable with existing 802.11a wireless equipment."

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  1. Re:One of the biggest drawbacks? by RGRistroph · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I would rather have 56k and be able to go a mile or two. If everyone could get devices of that range, we'd have to have each device have a lower bandwidth so we wouldn't crowd each other out; but more importantly peer-to-peer ad-hoc networks could give some telecos a run for their money.

    Heck, I'd settle for 14.4k or 9600. Who the hell wants 1000 MB/s when you can only talk to yourself ?

  2. Re:D-Link and Proxim by Artifex · · Score: 4, Interesting

    It says it connects at 72 Mbps consistently

    But is it consistently giving you that throughput?
    And if it has to throttle down for momentary radio noise, does it have the ability to throttle back up quickly?

    I'm just wondering - people with 56K modems often wonder why their connections are slow when they initially sync at high rates, and it's all about the adaptiveness to changing conditions. From what I hear, plain old 802.11b isn't so great at this... I hope this is better.

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