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42% of Worldwide Households Expected To Have Wi-Fi By 2016
retroworks writes "'Wi-Fi network use will nearly double in homes around the world come 2016, according to new Strategy Analytics research. Already used in some 439 million households worldwide, equivalent to 25% of all households, Wi-Fi home network penetration will expand to 42%.' The report says China already has the highest home Wi-Fi use."
I hope there appears some solution to the channel crowding already extant with so many home wireless networks. With only channels 1-11 available, and those overlapping with each other, it's already difficult to try to find a clear niche of spectrum. I live in a rural town about 30 miles from the nearest major metropolitan area, and still I count around 15 wireless networks within detectable range.
Basically, it's all just too crowded.
Either the FCC needs to open up some more surrounding spectrum to use, 5ghz networks need to pick up in popularity, or some other technology needs to become available.
Cheaper, faster, more reliable, doesn't have compatibility issues and unlike wifi adapters lasts much longer than two years. It requires some work to set up but you only have to do it once.
I haven't visited anyone without wifi in over a decade.
Sudden realization of selection bias...happens so much to us nerds :)
Wi-Fi's the Answer to Everything.
A large percentage of households wordwide don't even have electricity.
Wifi is well down the list after running water and drains.
But there are people that are allergic to WiFi signals!
Almost half the households in the world having WiFi will cause all these people to leave populated areas and seek refuge in remote areas!
Nothing but good could come of this :)
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Clearly the authors have never been to the favelas of Sao Paulo or Port-au-Prince or sub-Saharan Africa, where families fit 10 homes in the space of an American one car garage. It's bad enough they try to make claims covering "every single home on the planet", but to claim that nearly half of every single one will run wifi!?! Didn't read. Won't read. If TFS is even remotely accurate, TFA will be a waste of time and rife with errors.
Wireless is so overrated. A million more random issues, including but not limited to every other electronic device giving out interference. I have randomly been unable to access shares over wireless networks, randomly been unable to connect, lost connection whenever the wireless phone rang or someone used the microwave. it is not worth the hassle.
Also it is significantly slower to transferring files (the new N is slower then gigabit and the old common stuff is way slower then the old 100 cable).
Troll is not a replacement for I disagree.
If wifi does hit this density, does it make ad-hoc mesh networks a reasonable alternative using a protocol like B.A.T.M.A.N.? The throughput would be nowhere near the fat pipes of big fiber, and the latency would be killer, but it would be extremely difficult for the government to shutdown.
Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
left with the default password on their wifi routers and allowing wifi admin access making them great fun for wardrivers
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And there's another thing to consider when you think of all that wireless density. Suppose the wireless users get together and form their own encrypted mesh that isn't so dependent on the local ISP. Neighbourhoods, small towns or even city cores in larger cities could be linked without having a single ISP to oversee and filter their traffic.
My god, all these people could exchange ideas, pron and copyrighted material and there'd be no way to stop them other than to jam their wireless connections.
Just looking for alternatives to what's coming when they enact ACTA and reintroduce SOPA and PIPA. If you think those have been defeated and will never come back again, you're living in a dream world.
I love my cables and wont give them up.
"never gonna give you up, never gonna cut you out, never gonna buy wi-fi...."
The remaining 48% still have wifi; 42% only indicates the ones who are actually paying for the service.
some technology to inter connect those routers/networks for free internet. Then the corporation can rape the existing Internet to their hearts content.
by TheSpoom (715771) Uncaring Linux user here. I have nothing to add to this but please continue. *munches popcorn*
As it's the easiest form of networking, and as all/most portable devices and computers use it, it couldn't be more than a sure bet. I'd like to see these research/forecasting companies lodge a sum of money with an independent trust and if the forecast fails then the cash is donated to charity!
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And yet, this year... I went back to all wired ethernet.
Rather than try to figure out which household was causing
my packet drops and then think up what to say to them to
cause it to stop, I went back to tried and true copper.
No more stuttering streaming and dropouts... plus I can
move files at gigaspeed.
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I would agree, but more car models are coming out with built-in wifi. Along some roads the traffic is so constant to permit ad-hoc mesh networks across the country. That does allow for other possibilities like real real-time traffic monitoring or crash/stoppage reporting, but that's not material to this discussion. What is is that citizens will shortly, if not now, have the ability to talk to each other regularly via a means that the government cannot shut down by simply flipping a switch. That is not only important, but revolutionary.
Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
The more Wifi we put into houses the most pollution we add to the 2.4GHz band, by 2016 will it even be possible to add any more devices into it?
like many here that claim wireless can be a warzone at times, I live in a fairly rich apartment complex so everyone has wifi and there's even a few wifi routers provided for free by management. At any given time there would be about 30 connections at once, and with only 11 channels, it can get pretty crowded. 36mbps turned out to be 4mbps on average. I bought a wireless N router and had so much more flexibility. I still don't fully understand all of those extra features that came with it but I'm now blazing through the internet. There is a desperate need for a wider spectrum since the internet will soon be absolutely everywhere (as if it isn't with 4g etc..)
I will stick with regular cables for non-portable devices like desktops. I hate having unstable connections, interferences, etc.
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With India having 1/3rd of the World's population, 80% of which can't afford a toilet, I doubt.
and only 1% with something other than the default password?