IEEE Developments in Wireless Networking

Posted by Zonk on Friday January 20, 2006 @02:27AM from the how-to-talk-to-the-eather dept.

JamesAlfaro writes "After much wrangling between opposing interests among the members of the IEEE, a first draft for the Wi-Fi IEEE 802.11n specification received approval in a Thursday meeting. Final ratification of the standard is not expected until next year." Relatedly, judgecorp writes "The IEEE has disbanded its working group on ultrawideband. They are leaving the marketplace to decide between two competing approaches." From the article: "Freescale, first to the market with UWB products, believes its headstart will give it a long-term victory, while WiMedia, with the backing of industry heavyweights including Intel and Microsoft, reckons its punch will eventually win through, even without a formal IEEE standard."

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Re:Pre-n compatiblity by amazon10x · 2006-01-20 04:59 · Score: 0, Offtopic

You're not the only one. All my network is on 802.11b (My main comp is on a wire because I didn't like the increased latency of wireless) and I don't have any intention of upgrading it. The main thing I use the network for is to hook up to my cable connection; transferring files between computers is done rarely and when it is I usually just hook up a USB key.