Beamforming: The Best WiFi You’ve Never Seen

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Chariot At 5 GHz

There’s no point in kicking a dead horse. Across the first four locations, BeamFlex beats Cisco’s on-chip beamforming by anywhere from roughly 1.5x to 3x. Location 5 is the exception because the 1142 failed to connect.

It might also be helpful to view all five locations in line graph format. As you can see, the relative advantage enjoyed by the 7962 is greater at the closer distances.

William Van Winkle
49 Comments Comment from the forums
  • dingumf
    Tyra is an over confident wh0r3 and is not hot.

    You sir are an idiot
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  • pirateboy
    just what we need, more retarded failnoobs clogging up the airwaves with useless braindead movieclips...yaay
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  • chinesemafia69
    wow....this owns

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  • bucifer
    This article started up pretty good with lots of technical data and the beamforming technology in theory but after that the goodness stopped.

    1.You cannot compare two products by testing them with a in-house developed software. It's like testing ATI vs nVIDIA with nvidia made benchmark.
    2.If you do something get it done, don't just go with half measures. I don't care if you didn't have time. You should have planned this from the beginning. The tests are incomplete, and the article is filled with crap of Rukus and Cisco.
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  • Mr_Man
    In defense of your wife, you didn't HAVE to use that particular channel to view all the "detail".
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  • @Mr_Man: With a name like yours, I'd think that you'd sympathize with Chris a bit more :P Unless (Mr_Man == I likes men) :D
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  • antiacid
    awesome article! Thanks for exposing us to this great technology :)
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  • Pei-chen
    Both Tyra and Heidi have personal issues and would be pretty difficult friend/mate.

    The network idea sounds better. I couldn’t get my 10 feet g network to transmit a tenth as much as my wired network without it dropping.
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  • zak_mckraken
    There's one question that I think was not covered by the article. Can a beamformaing AP can sustain the above numbers on two different clients? Let's say we take the UDP test at 5 GHz. The result shows 7.3 Mb/s. If we had two clients at opposite sides of the AP doing the same test, would we have 7.3 Mb/s for each test or would the bandwidth be sliced in 2?

    The numbers so far are astonishing, but are they realistic in a multi-client environnement? That's something I'd like to know!
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  • jerther
    There is so much invisible to understand in wireless technology!
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