Airgo Quadruples Wi-Fi Limit

QED writes "Airgo Networks, a privately held maker of wireless networking components, said on Wednesday it has developed chips that will increase the Wi-Fi speed limit by a factor of four. The Palo Alto, California-based company, which designs its chipsets around Multiple Input and Multiple Output (MIMO), a wireless technique that uses different radio channels to improve both speed and transmission quality, said it has achieved data rates up to 240 megabits per second (Mbps)... "

Comments

Too bad this does businesses no good

[Anonymous Coward]

One of the key components of commercial WiFi architecture is the ability to leverage the channels and get complete coverage. You need those separate channels so that you can have signal ranges overlap. With separate channels, overlapping signals won't interfere with eachother (too much). That way if one AP goes down, the others can have their power level turned up to compensate. So basically, Airgo is giving us 240 Mbps for single AP installations (i.e. homes) where it will never be used.....fantastic.

This sounds rather useless...

[Khyber]

First you're going to spam across multiple channels. Yes, that'a real good idea. I can almost hear my cordless phone going static at the thought of that.

How about we work on getting rid of the distance limitations of Firewire or USB, instead? We've already gotten their speeds up to 400-800 megabits. Why spam across the airwaves when we can spam faster thru copper? (No pun intended)

Another thought. Oh, 240 megabits, eh? So I can receive your key packets faster for decrpytion? All your wireless bandwidth are belong to us.