Analyst Says Watch Out For Pre-N Gear
from the we-use-our-own-proprietary-standards dept
The 802.11n standard for next-generation WiFi was initially approved just last week, but chip companies say it won't be long before they'll have "pre-N" products ready. We've noted before how many companies don't wait for standards to be finalized or their products to be certified before they start pushing them to customers, potentially causing compatibility issues later on down the road with actual standardized equipment. Now, analyst firm Gartner is telling enterprise customers to stay away from the pseudo-802.11n equipment, because it expects the standard to be changed before it's finally ratified. They recommend waiting until 2007 to consider 802.11n gear, a timeframe the equipment makers' marketing people probably won't like.
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Remember X2 vs K-Flex
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I bought in hundreds of pre-ratification modems at the time for point to point links: they didn't need to inter-operate with a different make and benefited my customers.
This will always happen while ratification is even slightly slow.
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You could have solved that other ways
I'm running a three wifi router clound and serving neighbors across the street and next door to the side with IP quite reliably. For reference, I'm in a 3000 square foot 2 story house on a half acre plot.
more info here:
http://www.thenorth.com/APBLOG4.nsf/0/668D65A56B02BB4B852570A400535F16
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Re: You could have solved that other ways
This allowed me to change the Xmit power on the box from 28mw 251mw with no ill result! I could imagine two or three of these cheaper routers outranging a single Pre-N setup for the same price, while keeping it standard...
And anyway, who needs all that bandwidth? Really? Nobody moves large files between wireless clients. B or G is going to be faster than your actual internet connection, so no difference there. Anybody who's doing, say, DV editing and wants to shuffle video around should get off their butts and just install Gigabit Ethernet.
I might move over to N eventually. When my laptop has it built in and if it does offer better range. But right now I don't see any benefit that justifies an awkward PCMCIA adapter.
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Better coverage then ANY 802.11a/g could do.
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I thought modifying antennas was illegal?
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Pre N
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MIMO Rocks!!
MIMO Rocks!! I used the SRX400 AP and the WPC54GX4 cardbus card. This is Airgo Chipsets and I am very very happy.
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