1 Gbps Wi-Fi In Development

[Clintonio]

I noticed at least one person complained about net speeds; Your router will almost definitely NOT affect your internet speeds.

This is for people who care about internal network traffic or have a high volume of people on a single wireless point, like internet cafes, schools etc.

 

[randomizer]

[citation][nom]manos[/nom]Exactly. Some times it feels like they are missing the point, really. I rather they focous on speeding up ADSL lines etc cause both speeds and prices will drop than offering me a way more expensive router in the future with no use with a few exceptions. NOT the wider consumer though. Then again... The guys that work on WiFi tech arent the same ones but I mean.. Someone needs to catch up on them in order for me to be actually excited over this kind of news.[/citation]
ADSL can do up to 24Mbps (down)/1Mbps (up) if you have the ADSL2+ standard. If you have ADSL2+ Annex M you get 3Mbps upload. The technology exists and has existed for years, you just need the DSLAM support at your local exchange.

Honestly, I can't believe that 1Gbps wireless is still only "in development." We should already be working on 5-10Gbps with 1Gbps the current standard.

 

[njalterio]

I am more interested to see if this improves on the range of wireless N at all.

 

[zak_mckraken]

[citation][nom]ubernoobie[/nom]huh? ac? shouldn't it be like m or something? ac stands for air conditioning[/citation]
Yes! And ac will blow you away! Well... not literaly.

 

[kikireeki]

I thought the world will come to an end by this date!

 

[NapoleonDK]

Lol 802.11ac will be the REASON the world ends in 2012! It'll probably tear a hole in space-time with it's billion-megawatt 9001GHZ radio. ...suddenly I want it all the more.

 

[arrghushakaboorga]

Not only are internet speeds not keeping up with network speeds (not that it needs to be quite as high), but they are throttling internet speeds. These faster router's won't provide much to me until internet catches up somewhat. Not being a business I don't transfer much across a router

 

[Devastator_uk]

@Randomiser:

Actually ADSL2+ is up to 3.5Mbps upstream now accourding to 'ITU G.992.5 Annex M', although it was originally only 1Mbps

 

[caparc]

A higher speed wireless link would be nice for networked storage regardless of the internet. When wimax was announced there was supposed to be an unlicensed version. It hasn't happened. White space is also supposedly going to have an unlicensed version. White space would be good for some speed and range.

 

[freiheitner]

I doubt DSL speeds (at least in the US) will ever go much higher. The big push now is on converting copper wires to fiber (UVerse, FiOS) and I suspect the reason for that is that phone co's are not required to share their fiber lines with small ISPs the way they are with copper lines. DSL is dying on the vine at 1.5/3/7.1 Mbps speeds while the fiber options are pushing 10/15/25 Mbps.

 

[cdillon]

[citation][nom]anamaniac[/nom]Why can't we just use bytes dammit!BYTES!Yes, I would love to have 125MB/s wireless. Make file transfers easier (as compared to my crappy 820.11n).[/citation]

Because you always measure SERIAL data rates in Bits Per Second, because they transfer Bits per clock. Parallel interfaces get measured in Bytes Per Second because they transfer 1 Byte or more per clock.

 

[zads]

Yawn.
I'm sure there's 100 Gbps wireless in development for the year 2020, until its closer to a finished product, who gives a damn today?

 

[randomizer]

[citation][nom]freiheitner[/nom]I doubt DSL speeds (at least in the US) will ever go much higher. The big push now is on converting copper wires to fiber (UVerse, FiOS) and I suspect the reason for that is that phone co's are not required to share their fiber lines with small ISPs the way they are with copper lines. DSL is dying on the vine at 1.5/3/7.1 Mbps speeds while the fiber options are pushing 10/15/25 Mbps.[/citation]
Some standards of DSL can do 100Mbps, just not ADSL.

 

[Devastator_uk]

[citation][nom]anamaniac[/nom]Why can't we just use bytes dammit!BYTES!Yes, I would love to have 125MB/s wireless. Make file transfers easier (as compared to my crappy 820.11n).[/citation]

Because technically a byte is not always 8 bits.