pfarrell;533535 Wrote: > dsdreamer wrote: > > The ability of .11n to work reliably over long distances and use > > spatial diversity to overcome interference is a very material point. > > or more properly, the potential of 11n to do things like use the 5gHz > band in addition to 2.4gHz, and the ability to bond two channels for > redundancy is a great thing in some cases. > > > > Consider how many posts have been made to this forum on issues of > > drop-outs and stuttering that turned out to be wireless related. > > Which is why I ran Cat5 cable though the walls. Wifi is a great > convenience, but its not reliable enough on its own > > > > These days, the best standardized technology for that would be > > dual-band 802.11n with at least 2 spatial streams, even though it is > > extreme overkill in terms of bandwidth for audio applications. > > > A final point on market adoption: 802.11n represented more than 19 > > percent of all WLAN access point shipments in the first three > quarters > > of 2009. > But a lot of those 11n routers sold can't do the cool stuff. Only some > do 5gHz, only a subset of those do bonding between 2.4gHz and 5gHz, > etc. > > What people really want is to have WiFi be flawless. Which is a great > goal. And in a few years, when all the chips do both bands, bonding, > etc > for $0.05 each, it will be part of the product line for Logitech and > everyone else. > > > Those early adopter geeks seem to have quite some purchasing > > power... > > Geeks use having the latest and greatest as a proxy for another > measurement. > > > -- > Pat Farrell > http://www.pfarrell.com/
Bravo. Reasonable is sometimes unknown. -- pski real stereo doesn't wake neighbors (it enrages them) . ------------------------------------------------------------------------ pski's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=15574 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=77155 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
