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802.11n Should Be Finalized By September
adeelarshad82 writes "It's probable that the 802.11n standard will finally be approved at a scheduled IEEE meeting this September, ending a contentious round of infighting that has delayed the standard for years. For the 802.11n standard, progress has been agonizingly slow, dating back almost five years to 2004, when 802.11g held sway. It struggled throughout 2005 and 2006, when members supposedly settled on the TGnSync standard, then formed the Enhanced Wireless Consortium in 2006 to speed the process along. A draft version of 802.11n was approved in January 2006, prompting the first wave of routers based on the so-called draft-n standard shortly thereafter."
Oh goody. Now I can get dropped connections from twice the distance!
now i can finally use the technology that i've been using for the past 3 years!
802.11n SHOULD HAVE BEEN finalized over a year ago.
Now maybe some networking companies can start releasing wireless N products.
On another note, imagine how much the nerd herd is going to have to work to sell a netowrk product now.
Chuck: "OK, you can get this router which is a draft N, but this new N product will do everything the draft N product does for 20$ more"
Client: "All these letters confuse me and make me belligerent. Can't we only use one letter? "
Chuck: "Ok, howabout N?"
Client: "Why not something simpler, like A, A is the best you know."
Chuck: "Just give me 150$ for the router a 75$ for an extended warranty."
Client: "Here you go, I am easily parted from my money."
to Wyfy
Oh don't worry about that. We'll just fix that in the final spec.
Yours truly
IEEE 802.11N technical committee
Faster! Faster! Faster would be better!
IPv6 will be adopted by the masses?
I get 2 bars on my iPhone ... (in the bathroom of my one bedroom apartment).
Note to self: Never buy hax0r_this's used iPhone. (It's been "flagged").