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Wireless at Firewire Speeds?

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the I'll-believe-it-when-I-see-it dept.

MeCoward writes "EETimes reporting on working group that hopes to leapfrog 802.11 to create wireless 1394 links. Initially 100mbps but aiming for 400mbps." I don't expect to see this anytime soon, but it certainly makes things like wireless HDTV feasible. Sure would be cool. Of course Bluetooth is only now just catching on, so imagine how long it'll be before this becomes practical.

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  1. Health concerns by Samir+Gupta · · Score: 0, Troll

    While I would love to see this happen, I fear that this may have serious potential implications for health, which should be looked at carefully before moving forward too hastily.

    One of the basic consequences of Shannon's Law, a fundamental tenet of information theory, that in order to increase your bandwidth and transmission rate, with a given noise level (which we can't reduce beyond a certain point, due to inherent cosmic background noise, not to mention many other manmade factors), you have to increase your transmission power to compensate.

    With all this RF energy floating about amidst space, I am sort of concerned that if ultra high-speed wireless becomes ubiquitous, without the right studies being done, this may cause negative impact to health. While I am not a physician or molecular biologist, I think that we need to investigate this before jumping too quickly.

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    -- Samir Gupta, Ph. D. Head, New Technology Research Group, Nintendo Co. Ltd., Kyoto, Japan.
  2. Great Performance by Lieutenant_Dan · · Score: 1, Troll

    I agree that IEEE1394 technology could leverage off the existing WAP source focus point which translates into high-end yields in the fluctuation array.

    The transfer speeds could be augmented if we daisy-chained several EISA drives in a RAID 4 architecture (reflecting-mirror, where bit orders are reversed in drives 3, 7, and 11). That would allow the drives to sustain the increased write rates, although read rates may suffer during off-hours.

    This would also compensate for the electro-synergetic interference that the 2.4GHz encryption spectrum introduces at lower altitudes.

    What do you think?

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    Wearing pants should always be optional.
  3. Have wireless devices ever been proved safe? by BladeMelbourne · · Score: 0, Troll

    Have wireless devices ever been proved safe?

    I don't want to put wireless electromagnetic radiation around myself for 8+ hours a day. I sleep with my mobile near the foot of the bed, not beside my head on the bed side table.

    Cables are cheaper, more reliable, presumably safer and less likely to interfere with other devices. Unsightly does not bother me. The risk is too great. Now if only I could stop drinking I will feel totally guilt free ;-)