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[Adrian Chadd]

On Fri, May 06, 2011, Tom Koltai wrote:

> I think it's an interesting indictment against wireless that many
> technical persons prefer to hardwire their entertainment systems with
> either cat-5 or Ethernet over power, but then just as per set-top boxes
> and Internet enabled TV's the public are always three to five years
> behind.

The cheaply, publicly available wifi devices aren't exactly .. high bandwidth
enabled.

There's plenty of 11n APs out there but from what I've found, the low end ones
tend to have low high-throughput range, the quality of the clients themselves
varies wildly (again affecting range, but also interoperability with high
bandwidth devices) and noone's really mentioned how you expect lots of 40MHz
wide channels (and 80, 160MHz and beyond..) channels are supposed to successfully
overlap in a densely packed apartment complex.

I'm sure wireless vendors are addressing this issue, but as far as I'm aware,
it isn't currently addressed by anything out there. I'd love to be proven
wrong though!



Adrian

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