“The 802.11ac standard should upgrade 802.11a to use 80MHz or even 160MHz channels that provide much more bandwidth than today,” Electronista reports. “Combined with about a 10 percent increase in efficiency for modulating the actual frequencies, the speedup should improve the theoretical transfer speeds to as much as 1Gbps, or more than three times the 300Mbps 802.11n reaches for now.”
Electronista reports, “The technology should become usable as a draft standard in late 2011 and should be completely approved by December 2012.”
Full article here.
forget the the “theoretical” speed….
what’s the REAL speed going to be?
@Des Gusting
OMG! 802.11ac will bring about the end of the world!
@TowerTone
My Comcast internet/tv bill is $200/month without any premium channels. For that price I have every right to complain about my service. Maybe a “rightest” would be happy to shell out that kind of dough and just shut up about it. Do you enjoy just making corporations rich and getting little in return?
@ alansky – Um, are you serious? Anyone who uses wireless connectivity in their homes is using Wi-Fi.
And even if ISPs can’t quite catch up to these speeds yet, it’ll be a welcome speed boost for those of us wirelessly accessing other computers or hard drives on our local network.
@ Montex
I’m paying ~$150 a month for cable with HDTV, HBO, internet and phone. It did go up to $200 after the initial cheap period expired. So I called them up and requested that they put me on a plan than was more cost effective. It worked.
Montex
Try reading that again.
If you still don’t get it, then I understand why you are so confused by world events.
hopefully the isp’s will get in the real world and update their ‘unlimted tarrifs’ to mirror the faster internet
i rcvd an email warning me i’d d/ld 80 gigs in almost a month ( easily done with itunes movies , ps3 & 360 demos etc ) on my 6mbpsec UNLIMITED BT package
now they want me to change to 20 mbps
with the SAME LIMIT !!
i forgot to mention their UNLIMITED package is actually 100 megs a month
and then £1 for every gig after
isn’t this a con ??
i have no idea why people like Des Gusting here would post comments related to pseudoscience at a Mac-related website.
if december 2012 really is the time the world ends, shouldn’t every Windows fanboy try out Mac OS X for at least a month?
julian @ http://no-spamming/
Just thought I’d throw my 2¢ out here (why not?):
MBps ≠ Mbps
One megabit is one eighth of one megabyte. I highly doubt Verizon offers 50 MBps (400 Mbps), or I’m switching right NOW.
@lilochris
Screen sharing is improved primarily by a decrease in latency, not so much an increase in speed. 270 Mbps is plenty fast for VNC usage, as long as latency is not an issue. Even 54 Mbps, 11 Mbps, or 1.5 Mbps is fast enough. Latency is the key.
I have [well-known cable company’s] 12 Mbps (1.5 MBps) speed, but late at night I can get as high as 31.2 Mbps (3.9 MBps) while downloading movies from iTunes. Yes, I know about SpeedBoost. I’m only supposed to get 15 Mbps with it.
•• Why would you need WiFi?
Some of us don’t just have a single, old desktop sitting next to our modem. Some of us have friends with iPod Touches and MacBooks.
•• Why would you need 1Gbps WiFi?
Ever tried to share/copy your iTunes library over WiFi? Ever tried to share your ripped (er, backup) DVD collection over WiFi? Ever used iTunes’ “Home Sharing” to merge iTunes movies over WiFi?
Me neither, because it’s foolish to do so when hooking up ethernet gets you- oh! 1Gbps. Soon we won’t have to use ethernet for anything besides high-end networks and gaming.
Well… not entirely true. Wired connections are going 10 Gbps and beyond. Now if only our hard drive access speeds were 10 Gbps… Mmmmm.
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somenetworkguy
Sorry, the ‘MB’ was a typo.