This information is also available as a TechRepublic PDF download. As the 802.11n standard gets closer to final ratification, Enterprises are beginning to wonder how this may impact their Wireless LAN ...

Your 802.11n AP probably calls this using ‘double-wide’ channels. A ‘double wide’ takes up 40MHz of radio space instead of the usual 20MHz. That’s great … when it works. The problem with channel ...

The wireless IEEE 802.11n standard brings high-bandwidth capabilities to a wide variety of mainstream applications. With the ability to support live video streaming, 802.11n enables the home network ...

Channel bonding as defined in 802.11n Draft 1.0 doesn’t work around traditional 802.11a/b/g traffic gracefully. This causes severe problems in the 2.4GHz spectrum, where there are only three effective ...

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 ...

For the last couple of weeks, I have been testing the latest 802.11ac Wi-Fi equipment from several networking vendors, including routers and range extenders. Many of these new routers are expensive, ...

Keithley Instruments has released what it terms an industry-leading 4×4 (four-transmitter-, four-receiver-per-sector) MIMO (multiple-input/multiple-output) RF-test ...

So-called "pre-N" wireless--Wi-Fi technology that predates the new draft form of the 802.11n wireless standard--is old news. The 802.11n standard is not due for final approval by the IEEE until ...

Editor’s Note: The following story is reprinted from InfoWorld. For more of InfoWorld’s Mac coverage, visit its Enterprise Mac page. After much debate and a lot of contention among the overall IEEE ...

Like lets say under "ideal" conditions, the 802.11n is transferring at 300Mbps. If a router is rated 900 for that band (5Ghz), does this mean there is still 600Mbps available for ac connections? Or ...

Belkin’s latest N1 series router, the N1 Vision, isn’t just hands-down the smokiest 802.11n draft 2.0 router we’ve seen—it tries to one-up everyone else with a built-in LCD screen that displays info ...

Are there any security risks associated with pre-802.11n networks? After much debate and contention in the IEEE 802.11n working group (task group N), several consumer-grade products have started to ...