The first thing you need to know about IEEE 802.11ac—the latest wireless networking standard—is that the standard isn’t actually finished. Today’s 802.11ac routers are based on a second draft. Early ...

Extricom single-channel architecture takes full advantage of the 802.11ac standard by allowing unrestricted use of 80MHz bonded channels to blanket the enterprise, without fear of channel conflicts ...

The key factor defining the capabilities these products will have when they hit the market is the chip sets that are at the heart of each vendor's access point. A couple of weeks back I posted a piece ...

Earlier this year we tested several consumer-level 802.11ac routers. Here, we take a look at two enterprise-level access points. They’re a part of the so-called “Wave 1” phase of the 802.11ac standard ...

Sure, in a lab you can't already get 1 Gbps speeds. But most of us don't work in labs. We work in the real world. The best performance I've ever seen using my Linksys EA9200 tri-band router with a ...

The growing number of mobile devices used by the average consumer — paired with the popularity of new wireless applications such as HD video streaming, mobile gaming, and high-speed wireless backup — ...

The emerging IEEE 802.11ac wireless LAN standard will be able to deliver faster connections wherever it’s used, but the biggest benefit may come at public hotspots — eventually. On Wednesday, the ...

Wireless LAN, driven by the forthcoming IEEE 802.11ac standard, is poised for significant growth as Wi-Fi capabilities are added to a host of product categories ranging from automobiles to ...

This isn't an 802.11ac problem, it's a physics problem. 5GHz is attenuated by obstacles at a significantly higher rate than 2.4GHz. However, there is a lot less "stuff" operating in the 5GHz band. You ...

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 ...