1 Gbps Wi-Fi In Development
1 Gbps Wi-fi, or rather 802.11ac, is currently in development and scheduled to go official in 2012.
Considering how long it took 802.11n to become official, speed demons may end up waiting a very long time for 802.11ac... possibly up the three years out. However, at least there's a glimmer of hope: the next wireless standard is indeed in the works, and will offer wireless speeds of up to 1 Gbps. That's a considerable haul over the air, but will it be enough in a growing digital age? Will it be too little too late?
APC Magazine reports that the IEEE 802.11ac working group is officially named "Very High Throughput < 6 GHz Task Group," and is currently exploring ways to push short-range speeds of up to 1 Gbps. The standard is poised to become official in 2012, but again, there may be a delay as seen with the just-christened 802.11n standard.
802.11n currently pumps speeds of up to 300 Mbps using a novel Multiple In / Multiple Out configuration of multiple antennae, working in sync. It's unknown what kind of form the next standard will take, however the group wants to make sure backwards compatibility is a feature (for 802.11n and 802.11a) as well as automatic detection of legacy networks.
Egyptian electrical graduate Osama Aboul-Magd helms the 802.11ac task group. His experience includes Samsung Electronics (his current gig) and Nortel Networks in Ottawa, Canada. He also completed postgraduate education at the University of Toronto.
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huh? ac? shouldn't it be like m or something? ac stands for air conditioning
this will be sweet when it arrives!
Great... But it wont make my connection speed to the internet any faster.
so, does that mean it will be ratified in 2017?
can't wait for it! I will be able to upload 50gb worth of Blue-ray porn on my laptop in a few minutes
Isn't 4G -internet- supposed to be up to 1Gbps and is already being implemented in the US?
I might be wrong about that, but if it's true - isn't 802.11ac way behind the times?
This is WIRELESS, buddy boy. Wireless is always way behind a hardwire connection.
Great... But it wont make my connection speed to the internet any faster.
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.
Gee, are they going to cripple it with the same "good neighbor", cram it in the wireless G band policy that makes N so slow, or are they going to put it in it's own frequency band so it can run unrestricted? N in all it's 300 Mbps half-duplex glory only achieves close to 100 base-t throughput at best in a noiseless environment.
huh? ac? shouldn't it be like m or something? ac stands for air conditioning
If you're thinking of the next letter after 'n', it's 'o'
But since 'o' looks a lot like '0' (zero) it has been omitted from the standard so the next one up is 'p'. But since that and the next lot of letters is taken already, i guess the next available one for them is 'ac'.
Here's a full list if anyone is interested:
sorry, here's the link again:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_ [...] amendments
Side effects include: microwaving of the user, brain damage, and severe skin burning.
/Sarcasm
But you've got to wonder how you nearly triple the output of a wireless signal without any side effects, especially when there's already speculations about cell phones and such.
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.
As much as id love faster interweb speeds really the only one to blame for how slow are current speeds are is the ISP's.
Also even though it is faster then your internet it will increase speed in the Intranetwork which is a great value to businesses and people who like to network everything together.
Reppin Ottawa whaddup!!!
Yeah. There's no way they're going to have it done in 2 years
For right now, 802.11n impresses me. I currently still use 802.11g in my home but that's just for internet, not large files across the network. Still, I see why they need to keep planning for the future.
Lol. The nortel building right next to my neighbourhood, nice.
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][nom]anamaniac[/nom]Why can't we just use bytes dammit!BYTES![citation]
I second this notion
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.
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.
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.
I am more interested to see if this improves on the range of wireless N at all.
huh? ac? shouldn't it be like m or something? ac stands for air conditioning
Yes! And ac will blow you away! Well... not literaly.
I thought the world will come to an end by this date!
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.
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
@Randomiser:
Actually ADSL2+ is up to 3.5Mbps upstream now accourding to 'ITU G.992.5 Annex M', although it was originally only 1Mbps
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.
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.
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).
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.
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?