We all know about wireless; we have all seen wireless access points and routers. They all look about the same with a few minor aesthetic differences. However, they do not have to look the same as we ...

As a proposed wireless standard for high-throughput enhancements, 802.11n has been viewed primarily as a consumer technology. However, 802.11n has key applications applicable to the enterprise and is ...

Illustration: Mick Wiggins What a difference a couple of years makes. In our first roundup of draft-802.11n Wi-Fi routers (see “Wireless Routers: The Truth About Superfast Draft-N“), we found so many ...

Wireless networking using the 802.11 standard, also known by its trade name, Wi-Fi, has become common in the home and has a significant and growing role in corporate settings. But the existing ...

It has been widely reported that 802.11n, the wireless LAN IEEE draft standard that uses multiple input/multiple output technology to boost Wi-Fi speeds to over 100Mbps, is “backward compatible” with ...

But here's the rub: The 802.11n standard is still in draft form. A final standard isn't likely to be released by the IEEE until 2007 at the earliest. Even the second draft of the standard, which will ...

The MacWorld keynotes given this past January will probably go down in history for the announcement of the iPhone, but lost in the signal of that announcement was the launch of a very important ...

Shopping for a computer can be fun. Shopping for a wireless router? Not so much, especially when you have to decipher a combination of numbers and letters that may seem harder to interpret than the ...

The wireless client adapters would only need a single set of radios that could operate in 5 GHz 802.11n mode, 5 GHz 802.11a mode, 2.4 GHz 802.11g mode, or 2.4 GHz 802.11b mode for worst case ...

The 802.11n wireless networking protocol has finally become a standard. It's good news for consumers but shows how slow standards bodies move. Dave Rosenberg has more than 15 years of technology and ...