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700MB in a minute ?

Hang on there, that's less than 12MB per second. At 50Mb/s, the existing USB wireless can do it too, no ?
How is this supposed to be an improvement ? Theoretically, at 50Mb/s a 700Mb pirate copy should be downloaded in 14 seconds. At 120Mb/s it should take just under 6 seconds. That would be progress.

posted by : Pascal Monett, 13 February 2009 Complain about this comment
@B-Byte: Repeat "in context" 100 times

M, K, B & b are ISO standards. Respectively 10^6, 10^3, Bell & barn. The correct form in ISO for Megabit is M2bit (the 2 should be superscripted so it looks like M squared, but this form is acceptable to ISO)

However in the context of computer science where the ISO standards are not commonly used, b is bit, B is byte, K is 2^10, M is 2^20.

To avoid confusion you simply need to pay attention and take note that the discussion does not involve nuclear physics :P

posted by : Fritz, 11 February 2009 Complain about this comment
Great, another wireless data transfer standard

A wise man once said, "Standards are great - there are so many to choose from." Why not just bodge USB onto a faster Bluetooth?

posted by : Darth Stig, 11 February 2009 Complain about this comment
Duhhh, he's writing about Wireless USB....

""compared with the 50Mb per second currently available." Wrong, wrong, wrong. Wrong. 802.11n draft wireless (which has been available for what, almost 2 years now?) is 270Mb/s. If I know anything about which number is bigger than the other number... "

Apparently you don't know anything, 802.11n is not WUSB. Wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong.

http://www.getusb.info/?s=wusb+hub

posted by : badpacket, 11 February 2009 Complain about this comment
Repeat: Mbit, Mbit, Mbit - 100 times

An Mb is a megabarn, a huge cross section. The "b" is the abbreviation for "barn", not "bit". Surely you mean Mbit, don't you? Just trying to make your article a bit more intelligible.

posted by : B - byte; bit - bit, 11 February 2009 Complain about this comment
wrong

"compared with the 50Mb per second currently available."

Wrong, wrong, wrong. Wrong.

802.11n draft wireless (which has been available for what, almost 2 years now?) is 270Mb/s.

If I know anything about which number is bigger than the other number...

posted by : ploggo, 11 February 2009 Complain about this comment

Samsung unveils ultra-fast wireless chipset

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