TRENDnet Ships 450Mbps Wireless N Adapter
This new external network adapter provides a maximum theoretical wireless throughput of 450 Mbps.
Tuesday TRENDnet announced that it is now shipping the first-to-market 450 Mbps Wireless N gaming adapter, the TEW-687GA.
As the description indicates, the external device provides a maximum theoretical wireless throughput of 450 Mbps thanks to advanced MIMO (Multiple Input Multiple Output) technology and three spatial streams per antenna. To access the existing home network and the Internet beyond, computers, gaming consoles, televisions, and DVRs simply connect to the adapter via a built-in Gigabit Ethernet port.
"TRENDnet was first to market with a 450 Mbps wireless router and now with a 450 Mbps adapter," stated Zak Wood, Director of Global Marketing for TRENDnet. "Consumers can now, for the first time, connect their media centers and gaming consoles to a 450 Mbps wireless network—the highest performing wireless network on the market today. With the proliferation of network enabled devices, streaming video to the home, and rich media content, a 450 Mbps TRENDnet wireless network will not be the bottleneck in a home network."
As Wood suggests, to get the full benefit of the Wireless N adapter, consumers will need to purchase the company's $225.99 450 Mbps router (TEW-691GR) or a similar solution from other manufacturers. Setup looks quite simple, requiring the user to connect its power supply to a wall outlet, connect the PC, gaming console or other device's Ethernet cable to the Gigabit port, and press the WPS button on both the router and the adapter.
"Gone are the days of entering complicated encryption codes," the company said.
Other bells and whistles featured on the new adapter include WMM Quality of Service (QoS) technology that prioritizes gaming, Internet calls and video streaming, and LEDs mounted on the front to visually convey the device status.
Consumers can purchase the $149.99 device from online and offline retail partners soon, however the device can be acquired now straight from TRENDnet by heading here.
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This is only a 2.4Ghz device and not a 5Ghz device.
Have and love the TEW-647GA
I don't really see anything worth getting excited over here. Just more money wasted. In MY personal experience, TRENDnet releases nothing but flaky, poor performing "devices" that are grossly overpriced for their lack of quality.
A 75' Cat6 cable is $8 on monoprice.......
Ever Hear of a MoCA Device? Much better option.
I use wireless to connect my phone to my network and maybe broses the internet on my laptop. I wired my whole house with cat5e (dont wast your money with cat6 just yet unless you want to go at speeds from 1 gig to 10 gigabit)and run gigabit to everything. Move 700 gigs takes 3 hours not 3 months on wireless. YA the speed maybe 450Mbps but once you move 3 feet from the router it will probably drop by a fifth like every other wireless device, then you have to split that speed between devices. A gig work great but remember most hard drives wont keep up. 1 gigabit is 128 megabytes a second so unless your running a few ssd drives good luck. So don't wast your money on wireless if you can run a cable in you house. You will be happier latter.
the range on these devices is poor.