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Pre-802.11n Offers 4x the Speed
An anonymous reader writes "Belkin said on Monday that they'll be releasing a wireless network card and router that uses pre-802.11n multiple-input, multiple-output (MIMO) antenna technology created by Airgo Networks. Belkin said the new pre-n products will provide four times faster speed and coverage area than 802.11b and g products. The new products will also be compatible with older products and in fact will increase performance on those older products."
What I'd prefer to see is a smaller boost in "speed" (I'm guessing that the speed "increase" is in bursts, not sustained) and increased security that doesn't cause a hit in terms of network performance.
Pre-standard? I'll wait thanks. Especially with the history of this company.
CINCINNATI BELL IS TEH SUCK.
Belkin said the new pre-n products will provide four times faster speed and coverage area than 802.11b and g products.
Faster!?
More coverage area!?
Then, how much power does it typically take to run an 802.11n card compared to the established alternatives?
"Provided by the management for your protection."
Can anyone comment about the range where there is non line of sigh, maybe 3 townhouses in between?
Now, it seems, people are going to be rushing to these new "standards". Sure, if you're going to be transfering a lot of large files around your internal network, perhaps while you stream real time video to your "entertainment center", then you might justify the extra cost and being on the bleeding edge; but most users just think in terms of "I want the newer faster stuff" or simply "I want the good stuff" and they will end up paying a lot more now for the technology they never use than they would if they just waited until the standrds were worked out, the products came down in price, and the connection to the rest of the Internet caught up in speed to justify the choice.
I'm an American. I love this country and the freedoms that we used to have.
Buy a 900MHz phone if you can still find one, they're cheap and work fine.
who needs it?
anyone who moves files larger than couple of ten megs(like moving a gig of raw pictures from computer to computer). doing that you'll start lusting after 1gbit real quick..
world was created 5 seconds before this post as it is.
Anyone with more than 3 computers. Anyone that wants true security. It never ceases to amaze me that after suffering through non-switched ethernet for years (decades?) people are ready to go back to a medium which is broadcast. When you use wireless (as I am, even now) you're using a single "cable" for everyone. One 100mps switched cable exceeds wireless by a factor of 9.... but the second switched 100mps cable does that again!
Think of it this way, with only a little cable-pulling effort in your home (an investment) you are adding oodles of bandwidth. And if you need more, pull more cable. But you're only (generally) going to get 1 virtual 11mps "cable". Once you use that all up, its gone. So, when your wireless MP3 stereo component, and the 2 tivos, 2 game consoles, your computer, your wife's computer, your children's computer are all on wireless, not to mention the laptop and the ipaq, and you newly installed VoIP phones are all one wireless... you'll be wondering why you ever thought it so great.
My own rule of thumb: Use wireless sparingly, like the limited resource it is.
That's okay -- Even B is faster than the Internet usually is. Main advantage of faster networks is for internal business
The truth is that even the 802.11b connection is faster than high speed brodband to the home, so there is no real gain in using 802.11g.
No real gain?
How about sharing files between computers? How about being able to buy a $200 gadget at your nearest electronics store that hooks up to your TV and lets you stream movies over the wireless?
Home networking is here to stay. I know people who don't have two clues about computers, yet they have home networks and like to transfer files quickly. And the faster the protocol's bandwidth is, the more you will have per shared node if you have multiple wireless devices in the house.
Think outside the internet box.