802.11n Finalized After 7 Years in the Making
After seven years, it's finally done.
Many of your newer Wi-Fi enabled devices may already have it, and you've probably been hearing about it for the last seven years, but the IEEE has finally ratified the standard for 802.11n – which some have just come to know it as Wireless-N.
This means that manufacturers of Wireless-N devices now have a finalized-specification to design their products to. Existing Wireless-N hardware will likely support the final spec with just a software update.
“This was an extraordinarily wide-ranging technical challenge that required the sustained effort and concentration of a terrific variety of participants. When we started in 2002, many of the technologies addressed in 802.11n were university research topics and had not been implemented,” said Bruce Kraemer, Chair of the IEEE Wireless LAN Working Group. “The performance improvements achieved via IEEE 802.11n stand to transform the WLAN user experience, and ratification of the amendment sets the stage for a new wave of application innovation and creation of new market opportunities.”
More than 400 individuals from equipment and silicon suppliers, service providers, systems integrators, consultant organizations and academic institutions from more than 20 countries participated in a seven-year effort leading to IEEE 802.11n’s ratification. Publication of the amendment is scheduled for mid-October.
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Sounds to me like 7 years of to many cooks in the kitchen.
But were already talking about how 802.11 sucks and newer standards will takeover...
Finally! haha
Good thing they didn't want to make a better mouse trap. That would only take 200 countries participants as all have mice.
I have this with my router and I can get the advertised speeds, unliked b or g. So, im talking 130Mbps. My router has it set to auto, and as soon as it recognises the wifi card only supports b and g, it will automatically go back down to 54mbps, but its still awesome to see the possibility of 130Mbps. Who know's maybe we will see the theoretical speeds of 300Mbps.
Current Consumer net, is around 24Mbps, so even at 300Mbps, you wouldnt see much difference there, but with file transfers and using the net, wifi wont be as intermittant as it currently is.
Very little changed in the standard for the last 2 and a half years, they could have launched it a year ago and already been working on 802.11P.
Cat-5 cable please XD
Finally!
It's like IEEE took information from Microsoft's Vista production playbook.
Thank jebus. The wireless situation in many neighborhoods like mine are bad. Two city wide wireless services, plus a dozen wireless routers most of which seem to be the rangemax and boosted type routers all on rotating channels make finding an optimal channel impossible. So much wireless noise.
It's about time!
For the experts here...does this mean anything for all of the 802.11n products that have been released up until now?
Wireless n sucks, next please
Finally... I had gone to a technical school as a sophomore when I heard rumors of the standard. I had graduated highschool when I bought a b/g router cause I didn't want to shell out money for a draft-n. I went through college and studied a bit about draft-n. I graduated college and my parents got att u-verse (att supplied a wireless router) and gave me back the router I had bought for them (US Robotics). Now I am married and have my own place, and have the router sitting on the shelf. Unused now, but reminding me that it served its purpose, and didn't cost a fortune.
My point is: I don't think I have ever known or will know a technology that has taken so long to get ratified. Yeah, the theories were there. The draft products beta'd the different implementations testing how products would react to each other so that they could maximize compatibility (aka, some members pushed their idea as best, because their draft product already supported it). I'm glad for N to be done, but only because it annoyed me of how long it took.
will there be any negative effects, like less far broadcasting (weaker transmission signal) or other negative effects of applying an update to an existing wireless-n device?
its about time this happened
Wow someone really is given out bad ratings to people bad mouthing the IEEE for taking a long time or the newly standard N would be the late forgotten standard soon.
7 years is a long time in the technological world, but so many people and organizations wanted to add their 2-cents into it and prolonged the ratification.
However how I see it, if companies are force to update existing firmware to accommodate to the newly-standard, then more ideas towards firmware modding, less signal noise, and a migration from B/G to N.
All in all a plus for the technical world...
Good thing they finalized it....right toward the end of it's life.
So in 7 years we've had a 5.5x improvement in theoretical maximum speeds. That's pitiful. This should have been ratified 4 years ago at the latest.
hah.... windows 7 took 7 years and there is no improvement whatsoever
I currently see close to 300mbps when using an "N" receiver. I have a belkin n1 vision router. As far as speed I have a netbook at home which every one knows doesn't have an internal optical drive so I networked it with my main pc. When sharing data betweens computers you really see wireless "g" left in the dust. Also When using "n" my range is alot more stable at further distances.
Hell it's about time.
Cat-5 cable please XD
Go Cat6, it's supposed to support up to 10Gbps
Because the most of us will probably say "so ... what does that change?", here is an article about the differences between draft 2.0 and the final version.
Took just as long as SATA III (3)
OMG! I thought this day would never come.
Because the most of us will probably say "so ... what does that change?", here is an article about the differences between draft 2.0 and the final version.
"But, overall, it’s the same 11n that has been here for the last two years, just better written."
OK, so no miraculous fix to the disconnect problem I have between my Linksys and Netgear N equipment? Thanks loads...
OK, so no miraculous fix to the disconnect problem I have between my Linksys and Netgear N equipment? Thanks loads...
The specs might not be to blame, the implementation might be.
While it's nice to finally have the 802.11n protocol formalized, IEEE really needs to get on the stick. This industry moves WAY too fast for them to take 7 years to ratify a new protocol.
BUT CAN THESE ROUTERS PLAY CRYSIS????
BUT CAN THESE ROUTERS PLAY CRYSIS????
jeezzz... stop with these "can it play crysis" comments. it's getting old.
once was funny, twice is ok, over three times is just plain stuiped.
anyway....
yeah IEEE need to speed up that stuff.