Comments on: Faster Wi-Fi standard gets draft approval

IEEE settles on proposal for 802.11n, but not all products built to draft standard may comply with final version.

[Roman12]

Speed, but what about range....

The speed improvement sounds interesting, but what I 'd like to see is an increase in range. Because it would only be able to get this claimed 300mbps when it's right beside the box, but I bet with distance the speeds sharply decrease. Currently I'm using this 54mbps router in the middle of the house, and when I go to the backyard or rooms far away from the centre of the house, I get like 2mbps with signal strenght of Very Low.

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[Hernys]

MIMO

MIMO is supposed to increase range to about 2X in relatively open areas, and upo to 5X in areas with lots of obstructions. That's for a fixed speed, so you should be able to get 10mbps at 5X the distance you used to get 10mbps inside a building. MIMO is available today in what's called pre-n devices, but it's usage will explode with the launch of 802.11n.

[sanenazok]

Are you sure about 802.11a compatibility

Seeing how it's .11a uses a different frequency, it would be hard to make things compatible without multiple sets of antennas. I actually have some .11a cards that essentially became useless, but with .11n support I might just keep them...

[Tom Krazit]

I was surprised, too

But the Wi-Fi Alliance's Web site says that 802.11n was designed to be backward compatible with all three.

http://www.wi-fi.org/opensection/pdf/802.11n_q_a.pdf