[LINK] Indonesia Overtaking Australia with Wireless Internet

[Adrian Chadd]

On Mon, Jun 06, 2011, Paul Brooks wrote:

> Widespread streaming in the home should be fairly seamless using this gigabit-scale
> link speed (compared to 802.11n which can achieve 40 - 60 Mbps half-duplex real world
> file-transfer speeds), but only within the same room. For networking the kids
> cubbyhouse out the back,  802.11n with slower speed but longer range, is still likely
> to be the solution.

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/beamforming-wifi-ruckus,2390.html

The trouble? Although the tech is there, it's not widely adopted and it's
not open source. But 802.11n + beamforming is actually pretty nifty stuff
and makes 802.11(n) "go further." (You could in theory do a lot of the
beamforming stuff with abg, but it'd be a bit silly nowdays.)

The 60GHz stuff seems interesting - finally you may get some high-throughput wifi
that is definitely attenuated between apartments in a shared complex. :-)
(Current-generation 802.11n consumer APs don't really like channel crowding..)


Adrian