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Use Multiple Channels for Faster Wireless Networking
icypyr0 writes "The Register reports: 'Current dual-mode 802.11 'a' and 'b' access points use only one of Wi-Fi's 11 RF channels at a time, with users taking turns. The Engim chipset can 'see' all 11 at once, and can use the three non-overlapping ones (1, 6 and 11) in parallel, increasing total throughput and enabling features to be incorporated in silicon that are usually implemented, at extra cost and performance degradation, in software.'"
Well, my polish is not that good (except my RPN/RPL) so i'll take your word for it....
....Excuse me, but
I for one find it ironic that someone can detect and possibly decode my WiFi signal from roughly 70 miles (per the new world WiFi record) but I can't get a useable signal on my laptop three rooms away from the WAP.
Good thing they did that in Poland. If they had tried this in the US, they'd have been sued by DirecTV for hacking a satellite TV system and the RIAA for trying to set up a P2P link. Of course, none of this would matter since they'd all be in a 3x2 federal pen cell awaiting for months to be charged with setting up a data link that could be used for terrorism ...
"A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of" - Ogden Nash
Well, it's kinda handy when you don't want any, ah, wires.