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Samsung's Wi-Fi Upgrades Promise Speeds Up to 4.6Gbps
The Register describes an advance in wireless speed announced by Samsung, which could make possible Wi-Fi speeds of up to 4.6Gbps in any device equipped with the new technology. By using “wide-coverage beam-forming antenna” and “eliminating co-channel interference, regardless of the number of devices using the same network” Samsung says it has cracked the problem and that products using its 802.11 ab standard could go on sale next year. Early products to use the technology will include “audio visual and medical devices, as well as telecommunications equipment.” Samsung also says the technology will be “integral to developments relevant to the Samsung Smart Home and other initiatives related to the Internet of Things.”
It seems that the 60GHz wifi is 802.11ad , not ab (Anno Domini, not Another Bad)
... their software will look like a 2000 era flash app made by a 13 year old, be even slower than that and receive absolutely no updates; if there is even a minor problem with the standard, you will have to buy a new adapter to get the fix.
I apologize for the lack of a signature.
How long did it take to get KitKat to the Note 2? An eternity and it's not even the latest version. The last thing I want is that same disinterest in customer service being applied to my network equipment.
"Medical devices"?? On a wifi network???!!!
What could possibly go wrong?
The right to offend is far more important than the right not to be offended. (Rowan Atkinson)
How close do you have to be to the router with 60 GHz? I already have trouble with 5 GHz signals...
Sig?
Ever had something streaming over bluetooth and tried to use wifi on a Samsung device?
Ping your phone and watch the packets drop.
Samsungs bluetooth usage basically kills wifi on all their device range, it's a driver problem and something they wont address.
This likely won't be any different. Their wifi setup will be shit unless you turn the bluetooth off (then it all works magically well)
Trying to get this issue through their support to devs is like tying to stick a knob of butter up a porcupines arse with a red hot knitting needle. :'-(
2020: Apple to be granted patent and sue Samsung over this
Bring it on! Streaming porn so fast you'll have to watch it frame by frame to see anything at all. And every freeze frame is of a guy's ass.
By using “wide-coverage beam-forming antenna” and “eliminating co-channel interference
More like:
By using “High Radiation” and “eliminating Human interference by destroying the brain cells"
It will only connect to wifi with high speeds if you use Samsung's App, which entirely duplicates the native internet connecting ability of the native app.
Wifi specs are just bullshit, always have been. /10 instead of /8 overhead rule: 5.4MB/s /location. 2.9 / 3.0MB/s
54mbit wifi
theoretical maximum 6.75MB/s
theoretical maximum, allowing for the standard
actual maximum attained speeds, over years and years of multiple networks/ cards / laptops / routers
It's only gotten worse for me, the higher the spec goes.
If they claim 4.6Gbps I'd probably believe it might do 20 -> 40MB/s, actual, genuine, sustained transfers. Maybe.
Bullshit much? I own a Samsung smart tv which consistently receives updates and have never had to buy an adapter to anything . What exactly are you pissing and moaning about?
Great for the rest of the World but here in 'Murica certain ISP's lobby to have the term broadband regulated to the lower speed rather than have to upgrade their networks.
Not surprising when you see who runs Comcast.
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"If any question why we died, Tell them because our fathers lied."
"...Early products to use the technology will include 'audio visual and medical devices'..."
Uh, I'm sorry. Any company mentioning medical devices and the Internet of Things in the same sentence brings the death knell in my mind.
Whatever pathetic security model they're thinking of shoveling into this device at the last minute before trying to ride the next billion-dollar revenue wave won't be enough.
Keep your damn Internet of Things away from medical devices until you learn to implement at least common sense security. This ain't the next iPod killer, someone's life is at stake.
While you're drooling over the projected revenue numbers, you might want to listen to your lawyers during the risk analysis part of the presentation...
Can't write in my journal, have to wait five minutes between posts. You're trying to kill off, Slashdot, right? So that DICE can just write off their acquisition or something?
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Now my wireless devices can talk to my router at 4.8Gbps so that they can talk over my Comcast connection at 2Mbps.
This is a wisely move of Samsung, because current network users needs broandband connection and this products will satisfy most of internet users.
you have to remember most specs have also relied on over lapping and shared channel maps. So the more networks your device can see the more impact you will suffer. At the same time the "RECEIVER" is the bigger problem, the transmitter only has limited capabilities to try and get the packets to you, it's upto the receiver to be able to decode it and put it back together. You also have to remember that in almost every case of "marketed" and or "consumer spec" the throughput is measured and tested with UDP traffic. As this becomes a calculation of raw packets per second at a specific size without scaling and takes alot of the "logic" behind cleaning up the flow out of the equation. UDP based streams are more likely in most cases to receive at a rate closer to the theory.
How long did it take to get KitKat to the Note 2?
Not to start an Apple vs Samsung flame war, this is one of the big reasons I've been a little gun shy about certain Android devices, particularly from certain makers. Way too often they get old modified versions of Android and see few if any updates ever. It's very much like the bad old days with my old Nokia smartphones that would never get improved or updated in any meaningful way. If you wanted a fix to a problem you had to buy a new device.
Of course Apple has it's problems too - big version updates often make using older hardware... challenging and slow. I'm becoming increasingly convinced they slow old hardware on purpose to (ahem) encourage people to update to the newest shiny. But at least to their credit you do get some updates to work with and they usually work unless you device is (relatively speaking) fairly old.
That's why every other year, when I run an Android device I only run a Nexus device. Pure Android on hardware that works, with frequent updates. Nexus devices are as good as Android gets. I made the mistake of running a Motorola Razr - what a cluster that was.
Are you going to fix the latest cock-up with your smart TVs, or are you going to take the heavy handed route in an attempt to force everybody to buy newer models? I just know that my next smart TV will most definitely NOT be Samsung.
Give me a wifi router that whose signal can penetrate the walls and floors of your average 10-story building.
Almost every tech site on the planet has that story and you pick the National Enquirer styled tech site?
Tsk, tsk. The submitter should be ashamed. The Register has shown itself to be completely untrustworthy.
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Relevant XKCD: https://xkcd.com/927/
I am a little more concerned with why they think my frig is gonna need 4.6Gbps :O
According to the fine press release, this is 802.11ad, a standard published in 2012 and which had been under formal development since 2007.
802.11ad is not intended as a LAN protocol; think of it as a wireless 10 meter cable. The short range is actually a benefit; short range means that your neighbors won't be conflicting with your system.
The press release is just puffery rewritten by someone who doesn't know the technology. âoeWide-coverage beam-forming antennaâ should have given it away. Beam forming narrows (and lengthens) the area covered. (Sortof.. Too long, didn't write.) Nothing to see here.
.. to use that on my "broadband" connection at home that's 3 Mb/s down and 384k up.
Just don't get too close to the antennas.
Samsung has a marvelous smart watch for us, too. /sarcasm