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New WiFi Standards, Double the Data?

Posted by simoniker on from the tin-can-and-piece-of-string dept.

morkeleb writes "According to the New York Times (free reg. req.), just when you thought it was safe to stock your home or office the 802.11x way, another possibility springs up. From Stanford and Bell Labs comes an approach using MIMO, which 'relies on taking advantage of huge amounts of computing power to send numbers of signals from closely spaced antennas', thereby enhancing range and throughput. Looks like Intel and Nokia are interested in the technology, as well as a number of highroller venture capitalist groups."

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  1. Google Link by error502 · · Score: 5, Informative

    Google has this article, too. No reg required.

  2. Woo! by Dark+Lord+Seth · · Score: 5, Funny

    More standards! Now it makes even less sense to me and my good old cat5 cable which persistently fail to provide me with 100mbit/sec speed!

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  3. Forget home use, think larger by cyberlotnet · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The article mentions longer distances "two to six times as far as current tech"
    This means 200-900 feet.. Even if you say 500 feet, that would be insane.. Imagine that + a pringle can...

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