Surge in WiFi

Interesting. I was under the impression that the reaction to the 'n' standard had been luke warm at best. Value for money is still to be had in 'g', in my opinion. Besides, internet connections (except in the far east) aren't fast enough to saturate 'g' routers. Companies typically set up multiple access points for better coverage so they don't really need the extra range of 'n' if they already have things set up. I guess with 'n' offering more bandwidth, it does better with a lot of concurrent users per access point?
 
Look ma!No wires!

That is cool. Faster wireless solutions would make wireless streaming of media a little more special when it comes to HD. It is something me and a friend in the uk have been discussing with his media center setup and going wireless. Would one be able to for example stream a blu-ray with a (n) connection? What is blu-ray's streaming requirements?

The other day I watched a video on a laptop, where both the laptops and my source connections were wireless. The video was 5.1gb 210mins long...And it worked 100%, no stutters, and that was using only (g). Still not nearly pushing the technical specs of it, but considering it was through 3 walls, not bad. The faster, the better.
 
From Wikipedia:

For users recording digital television programming, the recordable Blu-ray Disc standard's initial data rate of 36 Mbit/s is more than adequate to record high-definition broadcasts from any source (IPTV, cable/satellite, or terrestrial). BD-Video movies have a maximum data transfer rate of 54 Mbit/s, a maximum AV bitrate of 48 Mbit/s (for both audio and video data), and a maximum video bitrate of 40 Mbit/s. This compares to HD DVD movies which have a maximum data transfer rate of 36 Mbit/s, a maximum AV bitrate of 30.24 Mbit/s, and a maximum video bitrate of 29.4 Mbit/s
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So, 48Mbit/sec should theoretically be fine on 'n' routers, but it's a constant stream at that speed, which may not work out well on lesser routers...
 
From what I have heard, 802.11n ain't all it's cracked up to be. Of course, that is considering that it runs in the same old 2.4GHz band. 802.11n in 5GHz should be interesting.

On my WUG links I typically get a peak throughput (no, not data rate but REAL throughput) of just over 3.0MB/sec (megabytes per second). Those links are 802.11a. Not all that bad for most applications. 802.11g is fading gradually with the ever rising noise floor... You'd be lucky to consistently get over 2MB/sec in the cities.

The 300Mbps figures quoted are garbage. Give me a wireless connection that has a throughput of over 100Mbps and I'll be the first customer
 
greedyflyza said:
From what I have heard, 802.11n ain't all it's cracked up to be. Of course, that is considering that it runs in the same old 2.4GHz band. 802.11n in 5GHz should be interesting.

On my WUG links I typically get a peak throughput (no, not data rate but REAL throughput) of just over 3.0MB/sec (megabytes per second). Those links are 802.11a. Not all that bad for most applications. 802.11g is fading gradually with the ever rising noise floor... You'd be lucky to consistently get over 2MB/sec in the cities.

The 300Mbps figures quoted are garbage. Give me a wireless connection that has a throughput of over 100Mbps and I'll be the first customer
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So true. I can only transfer from my 'g' router at 2.5MB/sec consistently, even with my laptop sitting right next to it.
 
Better...

Thanks for the Blu-ray info fz1. It's also better to hear what we are actually getting on the floor than hearing the "Capable of Picking up Chicks for you" dribble. I mean, some days/places/situations wireless works great, other days/places/situation, it does not.

Last night we were overseeing a lan at a school we do IT at, and at first I wanted to use the wireless connection to connect the mac I was using. Normally it works great, and the usage I was going for was similar to that at home, but failed miserably despite there only being a dry-wall in between and 2 school kids with watering eyes from not going to pee, blocking my wireless. Ended up using wired connections.
 
francoislr said:
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Normally it works great, and the usage I was going for was similar to that at home, but failed miserably despite there only being a dry-wall in between and 2 school kids with watering eyes from not going to pee, blocking my wireless. Ended up using wired connections.
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LOL! Yep - we have some way to go in making sure wireless signal strength (or penetration specifically ;)) from consumer equipment is good enough. I had such an issue at home once I set up my wireless router: it's downstairs and most of the time I am upstairs working on my laptop (unfortunately, our walls are very thick - definitely not drywall). So, I resorted to a 'trifecta' of signal boosting methods:

1. Home made signal reflector
2. After-market 7dBi antenna
3. Hawking WiFi Signal Booster

Needless to say, I don't have any more WiFi issues :D

What is interesting is that the far poorer construction (typically) of homes in the USA means they can get away with built-in antennas on their WiFi equipment and have 'excellent' signal throughout the home. Our homes seem to be built like bunkers in comparison... They should customise WiFi equipment when it comes here with boosted signal output.
 
Prices...

Been looking at prices for wireless access points, and the cheap ones are so freaking cheap, it's almost an option to start adding a few all round bigger houses and just do the wiring in the roof. But right now my primary use for it is getting internet through, and 2-3/5 stripes is more than enough for my blazing(rotfl!) 384 adsl. In fact, my ADSL needs to be 10 times faster before I need a better wireless setup. So I am happy for now.

I have a pal who lives 3 houses away, 2 properties between us and him. Would love to be able to wireless with him, then we won't have to constantly write so many disks for each other, just climb on my network and he has access to my stuff. Oh, and games...:-)
 
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