True 100mbp/s WLANs on the horizon

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1. January 11, 2006 12:34 PM
   iluvnug said:
   This reminds me of P2P technology which may be where the idea stemmed. I like this idea as I have very little need for wireless security in my home network setup. Though, I feel businesses may have a different take on it when needing to secure their high risk data. We'll have to see how it plays out.
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2. January 11, 2006 1:13 PM
   Cartz said:
   I don't think this is exactly like a P2P client. It would be more apt to be compared to a download manager like GetRight.I think what they are suggesting is that instead of broadcasting one signal on one frequency band, the antenna would broadcast multiple signals on a wider band of frequencies. For example, if one were sending a file, it would be divided into x number of parts, and each part would be broadcast over a different frequency band, all at the same time. Even though each individual broadcast is only at 11Mbps (or 54Mbps if it is a 802.11g type transfer speed) the total speed of the connection would be the transfer speed multiplied by x (from above, the number of simultaneous broadcasts)Although this does serve to increase the speed of the transmission, it does raise an interesting question about congestion. There are only so many frequency bands available, many are regulated by the government, others are very prone to interference. So if and when this is implemented, and every wireless computer is consuming as much frequency bandwidth as 10 computers are now, we could have some very interesting conflicts over frequency range rights.Who knows, in the future property laws may have to be re-written so that you also own the rights to a certain frequency bandwidth in an area around your physical property. It will indeed be interesting to see how this plays out.
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3. January 11, 2006 2:19 PM
   Eleventeen said:
   Yeah, alot of people have been turned off by the slow transfer speeds, including me. This however, changes my mind about how I look at wireless connections. It's nice to see that they are getting drastically faster than before. It would make a big improvement at my parents work shop. They don't have alot of laptops, but wires are going every way you can think of. They never really considered the wireless thing, hence it's slowness. Bottom line is, this would make a huge improvement with anyone that wants to go wireless.
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4. January 11, 2006 7:56 PM
   fury said:
   Sounds like it would only work in areas covered by multiple wireless routers/access points, though, not for the typical home which is only covered by one.The lack of speed doesn't pose as much of a problem when the wireless access is only used to browse the internet, as typically even an 802.11b card would saturate that kind of connection except in the case of a big campus or corporate office with a T3 or something along those lines.The cable at my old house was 4mbit down, so it was easy for me to experience full speed internet connectivity even on my old 802.11b integrated wireless computerI can see the advantage that these improvements would pose for an intranet comprised of many wireless devices, though, such as hospitals and other vertical markets.
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5. January 11, 2006 11:46 PM
   otmakus said:
   [b]Originally posted by iluvnug:[/b][quote]This reminds me of P2P technology which may be where the idea stemmed. I like this idea as I have very little need for wireless security in my home network setup. Though, I feel businesses may have a different take on it when needing to secure their high risk data. We'll have to see how it plays out.[/quote]U will find needs for wireless security in ur home network, after a bored kid in ur neighborhood starts to hack into your unprotected home network and format ur hard drive, just to brag to his friends that he can do that.[b]Originally posted by fury:[/b][quote]Sounds like it would only work in areas covered by multiple wireless routers/access points, though, not for the typical home which is only covered by one.The lack of speed doesn't pose as much of a problem when the wireless access is only used to browse the internet, as typically even an 802.11b card would saturate that kind of connection except in the case of a big campus or corporate office with a T3 or something along those lines.[/quote]I don't know about the new 802.11n standard, but for MIMO standard, u only need one access point and one wireless ethernet card in every PC to be able to use it. The access point has several antennas, but it's still only one access point. And there are a whole lot of different ways to utilize the speed, for example LAN games and large data transfers. U wouldn't want to play Warcraft with ur friends, or transferring a DVD movie u downloaded from the internet, on a 10MBps.
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6. January 12, 2006 2:29 PM
   mentaljedi said:
   I like the idea of wireless because wires isn't useful anymore. Wireless is the way forward, as are laptops though your opnions on THAT may vary. However, i like the way the title says "true" lol but the fact is that this type of technology is always a double-edged sword. On the one hand you have no wires, good speed and decent price but on the other hand you have congestion and perhaps a drop in performance as its popularity increases because of this.
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