Go on...
You say its for marketing. I ask, marketing against whom?Is there a point here?
The average customer reads Broadcom advertisement materials and builds his own 802.11ac devices, so that confusion is really a big problem!?Are they seriously applying the term "5G" to wifi? Do these people not give a damn how confusing this will be to consumers?...
Considering no one has the bandwidth to take advantage of 802.11n routers, I doubt AC is all that significant right now.
Dear Everyone,
"bringing up to twice the Wi-Fi performance with 25 percent more power efficiency than the current 1x1 MIMO chips."
Sincerely,
The article.
There are plenty with bandwidth fast enough.
You need to think outside of the box man. Especially if you are on a tech website, and can't possible think of how to use more than 30Mbps on your home connection. I use 400~Mbps every single day.
Uh? Yes. Megabits per second. I use almost all of my 450Mb connection speed that my router provides. So I would love to have a faster connection, and have my phone be able to make use of that speed. Do your research. And you wouldn't have misunderstood me.
You say its for marketing. I ask, marketing against whom?
Consumers will never see the name, and no engineer will confuse their '5G' with the cellular '3G' '4G'. You wouldn't last very long in the profession doing that.
Heck, if you're looking at wifi chips - you'd assume it references the 5GHz spectrum, because its presence or absence is an important differentiator (dual-band chips are much more expensive to make). Its a hell lot shorter to write and faster to read than writing out "dual-band", which is what all phones, tablets, and computer specs will say. (alternatively mention 802.11a).
The extra speed comes in handy within your local network. For example, to reduce buffer time when playing video from your iPhone to an Apple TV using AirPlay.
Not all of one's data transferring has to be to/from the Internet. The increased bandwidth could be noticeable for transfers between other devices on your local network.
This whole percentage thing irks me. 25% of what? What was the previous power consumption on standby? What about when in use?
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The next thing that android phone makers can tout about on a specs page but no one will benefit from for a few years..
Whether it's 25% overall (with some defined duty cycle) or 25% while in use, what does it matter? It's a big savings which would be worthwhile.
Am I misunderstanding the article when it says that the 2x2 chips will be more efficient? Is that only if the device/network are able to take advantage of the faster speeds?
Dear Everyone,
"bringing up to twice the Wi-Fi performance with 25 percent more power efficiency than the current 1x1 MIMO chips."
Sincerely,
The article.
An example with tweaked numbers to make nice and easy.This whole percentage thing irks me. 25% of what? What was the previous power consumption on standby? What about when in use?
Almost all routers in use these days are at least 2x2 MIMO, if not 3x3:3 or better.
Right. This will basically be the biggest improvement to WiFi that the iPhone has ever seen.But not on mobile devices, hence the benefits of bringing 2x2 to mobile, even though computers and routers mostly have 2x2 or 3x3.