Comments on: New Wi-Fi standard back on track

Opposing groups compromise on standards specifications for faster Wi-Fi, with new proposal expected next week.

[chuchucuhi]

ahhhh

I love the process of developing a standard in any industry, it's always so exciting. Heh, well I hope they move their ***** because 2006 looks to be about moving video content home or otherwise, so they better get the act togeter because this has been taking waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay to long.

[David Arbogast]

Time to Raise Taxes

Perfect example of why governments shouldn't build and own citywide WiFi... it would be time for a special tax assessment to upgrade the infrastructure. Awwww... your city still runs 802.11b. Better pony up more tax dollars!

[Slylencer]

Of course

Because we *have* to raise taxes anytime anything has to be upgraded in the government, right? Say, I can't remember that they raised taxes when the upgraded the water tower. Hmmmm..

Such sound logic. You should be a lawyer.

[Stating]

Even Worse

If taxes, or fees as Schwarzenegger calls them, were raised to upgrade city WiFI equipment then you can be sure that some or all of the increase would end up going to other, completely unrelated and useless programs. Think your state's gas tax money all goes to fix roads? Nope? It goes for dubious social programs like Esperanto As A Second Language.

[markdoiron]

802.11g Is Long in the Tooth

when i first upgrade my home wifi to g i experienced an immediate upgrade in broadband on the wireless side from 700-800-kbps to well over 2-mbps. of course i was running one of the proprietary spin-offs that uses all the channels (in my case, d-link). well, couple months ago a nearby neighbor installed a wifi network (there were three others before, but all were weak, he's very, very strong) and my data rate dropped back to 700-800-kbps, even after i switched from channel 6 (mandated in the proprietary mode) to channel 11. all my nearby neighbors deny it's them (i'm trying to find him to tell him to turn off his proprietary jammer!), so i hope that mimo comes quickly and takes care of things!

mark d.