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Faster Wireless Multimedia Streaming

Posted by michael on from the wireless-everything dept.

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."

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  1. QoS? by jeffs72 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    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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  2. The RIAA? by tajmorton · · Score: 5, Interesting

    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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  3. Speed is nice, but ... by drsmack1 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    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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