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prostoalex writes "The Wi-Fi Alliance approved Wi-Fi Multimedia (WMM) technology that allows packet prioritisation to the multimedia data streamed wireless LANs. Broadcom already announced that one of their access points and one reference design are WMM-certified. Other news outlets report that WMM will accelerate Wi-Fi adoption in consumer electronics and mobile devices."
If anyone ever actually supports that.
Isn't this just Quality of Service? Surely any decent wireless router manufacturer that doesn't already support QoS could add it with a firmware update. Or is this another scheme to get me to buy new wireless routing gear (first b, then g, now WMM)?
What am I missing here
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I wonder what the RIAA/MPAA will have to say about this...will they require that the streams be encrypted?
It'll be interesting to see how this plays out with those lawyers.
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something like this. I mean, I don't care about pulling down information, just so long as I can listen to Britney Spears live!
This really doesn't sound like anything that revolutionary, just another hack to speed up "multimedia" data on a WLAN. But the real interesting part is how they expect to put WiFi in, well, everything. Now I certainly have nothing against WiFi'ing everything, but I do worry that with so much WiFi, you could have some interfearence issues (much like UTexas had), and then you still have the problem that you loose pretty much all data security. Perhaps when they figure out a way to have WiFi APs automatically select the least used channel to reduce interfearance and they add in a good, strong, automatic, and mandatory encryption then perhaps we'll be seeing less ethernet ports and more WiFi antennas in products.
This is excellent - with the Slim MP3 player and Apple's Airport express base station starting this trend off, hopefully, we will get more devices with more cool features, and all (hopefully) playing nice with each other.
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I wonder if the ad for the job posting at Apple that appeared here a few weeks ago will be impacted by this at all. In any case, I am looking forward to integrating my A/V system into my computer, and get rid of a ton of wires, all in one swell foop !!
I didn't even think about that, but I imagine that a G type device can put out a pretty good sound broadcast, with prioritization (QoS in disguise) going on. Now compound that with phones or pdas that can read that signal and have a player that knows what to do with it. Now combine that setup that works for a few hundred feet with any of the plethora of ways to boost wifi signal strenght and you've got independent radio stations that can reach a real quantity of subscribers. For free (except equipment, since I believe it's been established that internet radio is license free as long as the broadcaster owns the original song he/she's playing).
The RIAA is gonna shit
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I'd be interested as to how they define which packets are multimedia, and which are data/text-based. It seems to me that there would have to be some sort of identifier on each packet in order to set a priority. As such, it sounds like it could easily be streamlined into a DRM scheme, so I wouldn't think that the RIAA/MPAA would mind at all.
Of course, I'm not a packet expert, so this ability may be available already...
Doesn't this lead to a new type of DOS attack? Granted, this wouldn't be used in a corporate setting, but it could seriously much around with the enduser experience if all sorts of high priority packets shut off other traffic.
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This would be cool with Gnomoradio, mentioned earlier today.
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My customers want RANGE. I need to be able to cover a large home with one AP (placed where ever it is most convenient) and cover the house and yard.
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Isn't it only IEEE 802.11{b,g}?
Yup. Same thing. Market name (and certification) for a common standard.
With all the discussion about city wide WiFi networks in Grand Haven, Philadelphia, Redmond, etc and disputes over WiFi right of ways at universities and stadiums, it is becoming more obvious that WiFi will be eroding the markets of tradition broadcast technologies... radio, television, cellular.
When I was at SXSW last year, not only could you listen to the authorized SXSW iTunes playlists, but hundreds of Mac using convention goers were sharing their playlists via Rendezvous.
With standards like WMM and applications like Skype, have we finally taken the airwaves back?
Is it just me, or does this sound a lot like Pentium's MMX marketing in the mid-90's?
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Bandwidth, bandwidth, bandwidth. Who the hell cares?
I'm waiting for some improvements to LATENCY. Has anyone ssh'd anywhere over an 802.11b/g link? Slow as shit, unless you have some other process communicating on the same link to get those buffers flushed. I'm sure there's encryption and compression overhead, too.
Also, reliability. A fast link doesn't do me a bit of good if it doesn't fucking work. I've been on the phone and had my access point disappear from both my laptops - hang up and it appears. Yes, I need to buy a 900MHz phone. On the Mac side of things (I use Linux & OS X) I know first hand of at least 3 machines running the latest OS X that work very poorly with three different 3rd party access points. Hell, sometimes my Airport Express even disappears from the available AP list... Frustrating, to say the least.
I still plug in to my gigE switch for that reliable, low latency link whenever I can. The hell with wireless, it's too immature to be used for everyday computing.
at least not 802.1p , It works on the radio level (PHY)a ckoff.pdf
:) You can do the same in Linux today. Hell, thats how 802.11 DOS works (small traffic occupy whole band, just send first and pretend you send something big)
http://w3.antd.nist.gov/wctg/manet/docs/VTC2003_B
all you have to do is make sure that multimedia sending device gets their backoff timers boundaries set lower than the rest of the wifi boxes on the channel. That way they will be the first to occupy the band if in need. Thats how Cisco handles QoS in VOIP WiFi phones of theirs. Its 100% compatible with the receiver, only transceiver has to support it.
google has it all
As some of you guessed before this whole certification is pointless
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Am I the only one thinking this will be DoA like WAP was for mobile devices?
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Am I the only one who thinks WMM looks abit too much like wma or wmv, windows multi-media, or just windows media murder. Bah maybe I should just get some sleep
If you update your linksys wrt54g to the latest firmware, and use one of the many methods out there to access the wirless driver that runs on an embedded linux os you can execute /usr/sbin/wl
one of the supported commands returned is
wme Set WME (Wireless Multimedia Extensions) mode (0=off, 1=on)
I'm guessing that the included broadcom radio is the one that supports this.
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