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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. 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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