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Airgo Quadruples Wi-Fi Limit

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the everybody-likes-more dept.

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)... "

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  1. WiFi speed is fine for me... but... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    ... I need better distance and fewer signal dropouts. I'm not talking about all that far distances either, just 200-300 feet inside an office building with many sheetrock walls and twisty hallways.

  2. Umm...yeah... by LordPhantom · · Score: 4, Insightful

    So, in other words, they've developed a chipset that will allow a router/WAP + WLAN card to use multiple channels at once...

    Not only is that not -really- upping the bandwidth limit (they just got more signals, not a bigger throughput per signal), it seems to me that it'd blast out 1/3 - 1/2 of the avaialble spectrum within range for wireless.....which means if you buy one and are in an apartment/city/whatever, you could be a real jackass to your neighbors simply by using it...