I hope its actually good and doesn't drop to N speeds as soon as you are behind a wall or further than 10 feet from the router or something
No, of course not! It'll drop to g speeds...
I hope its actually good and doesn't drop to N speeds as soon as you are behind a wall or further than 10 feet from the router or something
Because carrying increased bandwidth over long distances becomes exponentially expensive.
So sad for the carriers. Imagine having to spend money to provide service...oh, sorry, they don't as they are virtual monopolies. Whew, hopefully the CEOs aren't eating out of dumpsters behind the local McDonalds.
Backups with a Time Capsule are about the same speed with it's internal non-USB drive. The problem isn't the USB interface. The USB 2.0 bus should be able to just about saturate an 802.11n link, but don't come close on an Airport Extreme/Time Capsule. I don't know if the protocol stack needs work, or if the processor in the router just can't keep up but switching to USB 3.0 alone isn't going to help.
Actually this is false and it really does mean 5th Generation Wireless.
From Broadcoms own website. Image
But I did find your post quite fun to read
What exactly is your job in Broadcom's Marketing Department? Assistant Bootlicker?The 5G here stands for 5th generation.
It won't. Law of physics still applies. It is 5GHz. If you don't get full speed 802.11n, you won't get full speed 802.11ac.The biggest problem with 802.11n is the short functional range and susceptibility to interference indoors, as compared to 802.11g. I hope 802.11ac operates at longer ranges and is more robust indoors.
It won't. Law of physics still applies. It is 5GHz. If you don't get full speed 802.11n, you won't get full speed 802.11ac.
Excellent news. I will be replacing my 2008 MBP soon and wanted to be sure the machine I buy has AC as I keep mine for a relatively long time.
Actually, no. Current 802.11n speeds are vastly faster than your internet. These faster wifi speeds will only help internal data transfers such as Time Machine backups and AirPlay connectivity.
Apple Airport Extreme base station is fast enough for Windows Media Center to stream recorded HDTV program from PC to PC (1920 x 1080 resolution). 802.11ac for Mac is overkill.How many megapixels will it have?
Didn't 802.11a come out after 802.11b? Or at least devices that could use it did.
Also, I don't understand why the latest one is called "ac", couldn't they just use a single unused letter and avoid confusion with 802.11a?
For 90% of the stuff we use wireless for (internet) g is still pretty massive over kill. Until we have no problem getting and holding 30+ Mbps G is over kill. Yeah for file transfers N is nice but for the most part we are not doing that and G is more than what we need for streaming from our computer to our TV.
Apple Airport Extreme base station is fast enough for Windows Media Center to stream recorded HDTV program from PC to PC (1920 x 1080 resolution). 802.11ac for Mac is overkill.
What if there's other traffic on the radio.
WiFi is a shared bus subject to interference - don't think that a simple check with random input (what bandwidth is the "recorded HDTV program") proves anything.
But I don't worry - I wired my house with Cat6 copper. Everybody gets full-duplex 1 Gbps all of the time....
So, the carriers are remain the real bottleneck in all of this. We get a rousing 1.3mbs on the local ISP.
After working in WiFi for years and NEVER hearing about 2G, 3G, 4G or ANY G I can just say:
That's. Just. Stupid.
and
Just because the marketing department at Broadcom calls it 5G, doesn't make it so.
What exactly is your job in Broadcom's Marketing Department? Assistant Bootlicker?
There isn't an unused single letter. 802.11 standards cover more than just the big boy wifi. Once the letters were used up to z, the IEEE started double letters.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_802.11
I do hope some moniker is chosen other than 5G. When companies are just going to treat things like that as marketing terms (see both fake 4G and even 4G LTE), then at least give as a name that doesn't confuse with something real.