802.11n is coming soon to an HDTV near you
Why do we care about faster WiFi? Say it with me
people: "streaming HDTV without wires." Ok,maybe we're a little obsessed with the whole HDTV over WiFi thing, but
it really impresses the ladies. Now that the Enhanced
Wireless Consortium voted 40-0 on a joint 802.11n proposal, it's more likely that the IEEE will move the standard
forward. Full ratification may take all year, but you can bet we'll see more "pre-n" gear and less
"pre-pre-n" equipment which kills our product suggestion of "Finding MIMO."The new 802.11n standard is expected to increase wireless networking speeds up to five times over 802.11a/g, which are currently pegged at 54Mbps, but we all know that the real throughput is currently about half of that, right? Greater compression rates will also help as current MPEG-2 HD requires up to 19.39Mbps of pipe.
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Matt Gerlach @ Jan 17th 2006 6:18PM
Hey Kevin,
How is everything with the HD Steaming with the Xbox360? How is your Xbox360 these days, as well?
Just checkin in. :P
-Matt