The growing number of mobile devices used by the average consumer — paired with the popularity of new wireless applications such as HD video streaming, mobile gaming, and high-speed wireless backup — ...

Nonetheless, some big Wi-Fi improvements over the past couple of years -- like the 802.11ac standard -- are improving the way we wirelessly connect to the Web, the quality of that connection, and how ...

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Reading through and understanding the latest IEEE 802.11n and 802.ac WLAN standards is beyond challenging. It’s lengthy and the text is technical and confusing. An easier way to get up to date on ...

The standard offers theoretical speeds ranging from 6.5 Mbps to 866.7 Mbps. There is always another standard coming. This one focused on high throughput wireless networks. It is the IEEE standard ...

These days, business users expect increased connectivity and bandwidth, not only for smartphones and tablets but also for desktop computers and notebooks that would have traditionally used wired ...

Your 802.11n wireless network and devices are about to become passé. Although the official 802.11ac specification won’t be finalized until sometime in 2013, wireless equipment will soon appear on ...

The first thing you need to know about IEEE 802.11ac—the latest wireless networking standard—is that the standard isn’t actually finished. Today’s 802.11ac routers are based on a second draft. Early ...

The first routers based on the first draft of the next-generation wi-fi standard, 802.11ac, appeared at CES in 2012, sporting multiple antennas (the technical term is MIMO, standing for Multiple Input ...

The emerging IEEE 802.11ac wireless LAN standard will be able to deliver faster connections wherever it’s used, but the biggest benefit may come at public hotspots — eventually. On Wednesday, the ...

Multi-gigabit 802.11ac is coming, and it will most certainly have an impact, both in the wired and wireless environments. One of the hottest topics on the mobility track at Interop last month was the ...

The emerging IEEE 802.11ac wireless LAN standard will be able to deliver faster connections wherever it’s used, but the biggest benefit may come at public hotspots—eventually. On Wednesday, the Wi-Fi ...