oh, I see... it's for those people who need to watch all of their 200 4K TV's at once... in the same room, without wires. I guess that is pretty much the average consumer :P
On Fri, Jan 8, 2016 at 1:48 PM, Ken Hohhof <[email protected]> wrote: > And 4K video takes what, something like 25 Mbps? So you can watch 200 of > them at once! > > And notice it only has gigabit ports. Shouldn’t it have at least one SFP+ > port for 10 gig wired? Maybe this is for the person who has their own > media server in their house (but hates wires). It had better be in the > same room with the router, since 60 GHz is not going to penetrate walls > very wall. > > Perhaps people are going to have gaming and multimedia PCs that stream the > raw video over the home wireless network to their tablet or some sort of > thin client. Kind of along the lines of the wireless TV receivers you get > with satellite and cable now, or an extension of the Chromecast concept. > > > *From:* Bill Prince <[email protected]> > *Sent:* Friday, January 08, 2016 1:19 PM > *To:* [email protected] > *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] TP-Link Talon AD7200 first AD router > > Very funny! > > Interesting statement: > > There�s quite a few technical reasons as to why the jump to 60GHz is a > good thing, but the most important for the average consumer is speed. The > 5GHz band maxes out at 1,733Mbps, but the new 60GHz band can achieve > wireless transfer speeds of up to 4,600Mbps. So streaming 4K video without > a network cable? Not a problem. > > Oh right. Like all of us have 4.6 Gbps to the home... or even 1.7 Gbps... > > > bp > <part15sbs{at}gmail{dot}com> > > > On 1/8/2016 10:12 AM, Ken Hohhof wrote: > > Well, you gotta admit, it looks cool.� Price? > � > > http://gizmodo.com/the-first-802-11ad-router-makes-your-wi-fi-network-almo-1749163152 > > >
