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AC-2013 - Blazing fast wifi...in theory

ED E · 2014-01-27 12:13:16

http://www.zdnet.com/super-fast-wi-fi-coming-802-11ac-2013-7000025352/ Up to 7GBps :eek: Now I really wish my wireless chipset was modular/replaceable. Very interesting advancement if it does what its claimed it will. Even reliable 1Gb+ would be sweet.

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27-01-2014 1:13pm

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http://www.zdnet.com/super-fast-wi-fi-coming-802-11ac-2013-7000025352/

Up to 7GBps :eek:

According to the IEEE, 802.11ac 2013 "adds channel bandwidths of 80 MHz and 160 MHz with both contiguous and non-contiguous 160 MHz channels for flexible channel assignment." Channels that broad don't leave a lot of room in the available 5GHz bandwidth for multiple access points (AP) so setting up a business 802.11ac-2013 network is going to require a lot of work to avoid virtual wireless traffic jams.

The IEEE also claims that by adding higher order modulation in the form of 256 quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM), the data rate will increase by 33 percent. "A further doubling of the data rate is achieved by increasing the maximum number of spatial streams to eight.

Now I really wish my wireless chipset was modular/replaceable. Very interesting advancement if it does what its claimed it will. Even reliable 1Gb+ would be sweet.

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