Dazzling users with specification sheets is nothing new: screen sizes, resolutions, megapixels, memory sizes and processor speeds are just a few, but one of the most neglected and important is WiFi ...

Faster Wi-Fi: It's something we all crave. Fortunately, it's also something we can have, even on a budget. It's not just about fast Internet speeds to and from your service provider. It's also about ...

In theory, 802.11n can zip by your 100Mbps Fast Ethernet at a real-world 160Mbps, but the practice it's usually much slower. No, the Wi-FI vendors aren't lying; the problem is that you have to set 802 ...

Wi-Fi systems enable products from different manufacturers to work together. This is made possible by international open systems, which no one manufacturer owns. All gain a commercial benefit by ...

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 ...

The antennas used by wireless devices have a major impact on WLAN coverage, security and performance. This becomes increasingly evident in new draft 802.11n access points (APs), which use multiple ...

The 802.11 designation refers to the IEEE’s WLAN standard, commonly called by its trade name, Wi-Fi. The suffix indicates one alternative of the standard. Currently, 802.11n is the most widely ...

802.11n - The consequences of abandoning the 5 GHz frontier When 802.11b first started getting popular in late 2000, no one imagined that it would still be the most dominant standard 6 years later and ...

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 ...

Wireless LAN (WLAN) throughput advancements introduced by the emerging IEEE 802.11n standard come at the price of unprecedented technological complexity. This creates an immediate need for ...

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 ...

(Editor's note: This popular feature article, which was first published May 2007, is being republished in response to its great popularity and the likelihood that the 802.11n spec will be ratified in ...