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Gigabit Wi-Fi On the Horizon
alphadogg writes to mention that the same working group that brought you the standard for the 802.11n wireless communications is already poised to launch a gigabit Wi-Fi project. "Last year, group members formed the Very High Throughput (VHT) Study Group to explore changes to the 802.11 WLAN standard to support gigabit capacity. The study group is looking at doing so in two frequency bands, high-frequency 60GHz for relatively short ranges and under-6GHz for ranges similar to that of today's WLANs in the 5GHz band, 802.11a and 11n."
Yes, because the only thing people ever use LANs for is Internet access!
Sounds pretty awesome for streaming the future generation of high-def to the couch wirelessly.
Perhaps, but this will free up the rest of your LAN by offloading those pesky NetBIOS lookups.
Funny I pay for 15 Megabit and I get 15.5 Megabit. Maybe you should switch providers.
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Do the airwaves even have the spare bandwidth to pump through a billion bits per second? Right now, providers are fighting over parts of the spectrum with much lower bandwidth.
Nobody has brought us N yet. According to Wikipedia, it probably won't be ratified until November 2009. They should probably work on that first.
uhhh.....
Gigabit Wireless does not mean that you will be getting your ISP to deliver it, it means that you can set your home office or enterprise up with it.
Then we should see it by about 2040.
"60GHz and under-6GHz for ranges similar to that of today's WLANs in the 5GHz band, 802.11a and 11n."
There, fixed that for ya.
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With all these radio waves floating around my house (cellular, wi-fi, microwave, wireless USB, wireless HDMI, etc) the tumor in my head will have a new friend!
Dang, beat me to it. Absofreakinglutely correct though... massive LAN bandwidth doesn't do shit for me if all I'm doing is downloading torrents from somewhere in Russia or looking at pr0n.
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Doesn't invalidate my point. The US has fallen way behind many other nations in terms of broadband capability, and that is likely to have a negative impact on US businesses as well as consumers in many ways in the fairly near future.
Caveat Utilitor
In roughly that order. Anyone wanna tackle those problems first?
"If you want a vision of the future, Winston, imagine a boot stamping on a human face forever." - George Orwell, 1984
In my dream home, my highest bandwidth consumption will be internal, not external.
However, even if I never get my dream home. Mesh networks can help ensure you never 'leave' your home network. And the faster wireless gets, the more incentive there is to actually work on creating them.
Sure, and all that would take would be a simple relocation of my home, my business, and my life. Happy for ya, pal, wish we could all afford to be so smug...
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Actual speeds might even be competitive with a 100Mb LAN.
Before going gigabit, we await a few fixes
- we should have a true full duplex communication with radio resource allocation. We need this for VoIP
- we should have better network density (more user per network)
- we should have better way to avoid interference between neighbouring networks.
- in case of wimax, high latency has been reported when network becomes really used and bad behaviour inside buildings.
- next gen wireless network should also be optimised to avoid battery drain.
- For network pairing, please copy GAP/DECT technology and remove this network key usability nonsense.
- Innovate by making wireless roaming easy.
Fix this first. Otherwise, at this rate, big telco and 3G technology will rule.
On the other hand, a single consumer HD these days can saturate even wired GigE. I remember upgrading years ago because I was sick of not having the network bandwidth to properly use even a single disk; now I can stream 110MB/s off one, and I can see in a few years I'm going to be hankering after 10GigE, the way I hankered after GigE because disks were several times faster than Fast Ethernet.
Excellent. Whenever I need to shift large files (1GB+) between my laptop and network storage I usually have to disappear to a switch and wire myself in. As long as it doesn't have interference with neighbours I'm sorted.
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"At a meeting this week in Hawaii, the study group has been finalizing a proposal calling for creation of a new, as yet unnamed task group to carry forward the work of crafting a standard."
No tech yet, no people yet, no name yet but it's coming soon trust us......
At a meeting this week in Hawaii, the study group has been finalizing a proposal calling for creation of a new, as yet unnamed task group to carry forward the work of crafting a standard.
Not quoted was a later section, which went on to say:
"Study group members recommended several more meetings to work on gritty details of the task force proposal, beginning with further "working sessions" to be held in Tahiti, St. Tropez, Rio de Janeiro, and a luxury cruise ship in the Carribean. 'Our work is never truly done', sighed one group member, clearly still feeling the effects of the previous night's 'Bacardi and Bimbos' breakout group. 'We'll keep at it as long as it takes, just like we did with 802.11n', promised another, as two 19-year-old, bikini-clad "adjunct group members" massaged coconut oil into his back."
And when it rains, sidewalks are wet. That's also a valid point, but it has nothing to do with the topic! What the hell does US broadband capability have to do with with a group working on short-range gigabit wifi?
Never underestimate the bandwidth of a 747 filled with CD-ROMs.
Dang, beat me to it. Absofreakinglutely correct though... massive LAN bandwidth doesn't do shit for me if all I'm doing is downloading torrents from somewhere in Russia or looking at pr0n.
But they are useful for people who actually create things rather than just consuming what others create.
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I think the point is that here in the U.S. we are stuck with a megabit infrastructure, while gigabit wireless ( logically, the final component for ubiquitous gigabit networking) is nearly here.
Maybe you'd understand it better like this: Say our roads were only rated for vehicles traveling at 35 MPH, and we weren't investing in better roads -- while cars are capable of safely traveling at high speeds in may other countries, we remain stuck with 35 MPH limits. Now, you see? It shows how far we've fallen behind, that's what it has to do with it.
That's nice. In my dream home I'm aiming for the ' two 19-year-old, bikini-clad "adjunct group members" ' mentioned above.
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Keep your wireless
Faster! Faster! Faster would be better!
On the horizon doesn't do me any damn good. I need it to be much closer than that!
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I'm assuming if they claim it's gigabit then surely it's exactly 500mbit a second in real world use, right?
Just like 802.11g is almost exactly half what it claims.
and have to move massive amounts of files around. That's where even 100mbit LANs start looking slow. Gigabit, especially if wireless, is a huge advantage.
That said, it'll probably get less speed on average than gigabit cabled ethernet.
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Suppose it would cost a trillion dollars to upgrade your roads to allow speeds of 75mph. At the same time, somebody is working on flying cars, which will cost twice as much as those old cars with wheels that need a road. If the flying cars can go 500mph, doesn't it make sense to not waste money on roads, and just go straight to flying cars?
I think we need more flying car analogies.
When all the encryption, bandwith sharing, distance and walls/other objects have been taken into account it will run a flaking 2 Mbps. Just like any other wireless connection
Judging from your UID, you're one of them :). Otherwise you'd understand that short-range gigabit wireless has nothing to do with broadband speeds in US. One solves a problem of home/office LAN connection, and the other is a problem of delivering much higher bandwidths over much larger distances to whole neighbourhoods, towns, and even cities. Even if every one of us walked around with a gigabit wireless router in our pockets, we'd still have the problem of handling all that bandwidth on the next hop.
Never underestimate the bandwidth of a 747 filled with CD-ROMs.