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IEEE finally approves 802.11n WiFi standard
THE IEEE has finally approved the 802.11n high-throughput wireless LAN standard after just seven years in the wilderness.
The new wireless standard, capable of delivering throughput of 300Mbps and even higher, was first drafted in the year they buried the Queen Mum. The standard has since gone through six iterations.
According to the IEEE all existing WiFi Certified 802.11 Draft N wireless products will still work with the final standard.
802.11n offers much higher speeds than the existing 802.11g, which can only manage 54Mbps with the wind behind it.
Many wireless vendors have been offering 802.11n-based products during the past six years and calling them Draft N products.
Most existing equipment can be upgraded to the final specification via a firmware update, the IEEE said. µ
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Conveniently I bet all of my Draft-N stuff can't be upgraded via firmware, so I'll have to buy new in order to get what I paid for.
Also, may I take the time to publicly ridicule Belkin for not doing a 64bit driver for the Draft N Wireless USB adaptor I bought just last year!
Ducking Fickheads!
The implementation of wireless-N that many manufacturers currently employ won't help in areas where the 2.4GHz band is already crowded. (Last I looked, most wireless-N devices used 3 antennas that still all used the 2.4GHz band instead of using the 5GHz ISM band.) If you live in an area with a high population density with lots of other people using the common 2.4GHz wifi (regardless of A,B,G, or N), I doubt that N will provide much if any increase in thruput over G if the band availability is the limiting factor.
With so many cell & wireless articles, every so often reports of grave concern over impact of microwaves upon tissue erupt. heres another TODAY from CBS:
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/09/14/tech/cnettechnews/main5309644.shtml?tag=stack
Be Warned: its NO Joke & Takes some practical well thought out strategy to use wireless device. In Past, young child were NOT Allowed radio controled toy, only toy with wireline. Now, People have fallen to excitement of Remote Control. Arnie- Its Mmupwacks fault, I Can prove It....
DRASHEK
Wow, took them long enough. As I remember it was originally planned for standardization 4 years ago. Still if you want speed go wired, cat 6a supports up to 10Gb and they are working on 40Gb and 100Gb standards over cat 7a or fiber.
@DRASHEK
If you took the time to actually read even the title of the article you posted, it says that they are *Uncertain* that's it's dangerous....it's most certainly not a fact. I would like to know how you think you can prove that it is dangerous....and if you can then why has this never been publicly posted. I can say that the sky is green and that the earth revolves around the sun but that doesn't make it true....
cat 6a supports up to 10Gb
Note that cat 6 also supports up to 10gbps if the run is 55 meters or less.