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- kidhero, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10108mbps and 300mbps are marketing terms. They're recognized as throughput, meaning that two wireless units are capable of achieving that speed but in reality very little amount of that bandwidth is useable.
Your 54mbps 802.11 based NIC in theory is capable of transfering only half of that in data while the 108mbps is only capable of transfering half of that.
Ever since the announcement of 802.11n products by wireless equipment makers, they have never been able to achieve the marketing speed of 300+ mbps and have been using little tricks to make it seem like you have high speeds. Most important of all, most of the equipment were non-interoperable and nontransferable. - soogy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9Gee, I don't know. Home networking, streaming HDTV media, city-wide wireless, I have no clue why people would ever want faster wireless options.
The newer standards of 802.11 are not merely about increasing speed. This is the technology our future will rely on. - Quake120, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8That was quite possibly THE worst comment I've seen on Digg.
- nights0223, on 10/12/2007, -3/+6I thought Super G was 108Mbps, and N was supposed to be 300Mbps.
- mickoes, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2It is, they are talking about "real-time speed"
- soogy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2802.11n is suppost to have a max data rate of 540Mbps. It should be capable of around 200Mbps real speed, hence why it's not released yet, and why it failed it's last vote for approval. It won't be approved before spring/summer 2007.
It won't last long, because "t" is due in early 2008, and some other advanced 802.11 technologies are underway, like "r" which will be a major improvement for VOIP.
Too bad 802.11n is still on the 2.4GHz band. 802.11a operates in the 5GHz band, and so it doesn't have much of the interference issue faced by other wireless solutions. The only problem with "a" is that it is more expensive than it's "g" counterpart, and has much less range. - Murdats, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1You have to be kidding right, getting wired speeds without the wires, you see no advantage to this outside of server applications?
- dvdd127, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I have superg and all i get is 75-95Mbps
- charlietuna, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0So will the GNU/Linux drivers for this protocol be as difficult to obtain/write as the 802.11g ones? MadWifi and NDISWrapper notwithstanding.
- mc900ftjesus, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0"a" is fine, the early chipsets were bad but the range is much better now. Try keeping up instead of reciting crap you read on the Internet over a year ago.
- nigel984, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1What ever happened to 540mbits per second???
Ever since I heard this fantastical figure, reality has hit home. It aint gonna happen for some time (even 300 would be fantastic right?).
Maybe for the SuperHyperMega-N version of the spec. Maybe. - palmer, on 10/12/2007, -5/+2Too bad people persist in using the meaningless "Wi-Fi" moniker.
- kazsymonds, on 10/12/2007, -4/+1Still annoys me that a wired network will only operate at 10mb as you can only go as fast as the slowest pcs upload.
Does my swede in that does. - didymus, on 10/12/2007, -3/+0What gets me is that this is only acheivable by using multiple channels at the same time which effectively rules out deploying this in high density office type enviroments. Cool for home though.
- klepto, on 10/12/2007, -10/+1Who cares, do we have broadband that can even offer this?
and such speeds for wireless cards? Those types of speeds are generally used for servers.
While I "applaud" technology the advancement of this technology, are we going to use it? Why the digg? I hope its because they're closer to standardizing everything and not because of the actual speed achieved. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -33/+2i hrd your wif can reach 10mgps in bed haheahehj ij oke im sory for insult contury
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