In 5 GHz (the home of 802.11a) there are a few hundred MHz available. All the home routers really should be in 5 GHz.
----- Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com -------------------------------------------------- From: "Robert West" <robert.w...@just-micro.com> Sent: Tuesday, December 08, 2009 9:02 PM To: "'WISPA General List'" <wireless@wispa.org> Subject: Re: [WISPA] Wi-Fi to top 1 GB/s by 2012 > 160MHz channels????? What in the heck frequency are they looking muddy up > THIS time??? Just think of an apartment building with 1/3 of the > residents > running 160MHz channels on their routers and yet they only have 10mbps > internet and the channels are all set on "Auto" along with everything > else............. HAHAHA! > > My nightmare is coming true! > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On > Behalf Of Philip Dorr > Sent: Tuesday, December 08, 2009 9:03 PM > To: WISPA General List > Subject: Re: [WISPA] Wi-Fi to top 1 GB/s by 2012 > > "The IEEE has recently begun the first steps of voting on a major > improvement to Wi-Fi standards due in two years. The 802.11ac standard > should upgrade 802.11a to use 80MHz or even 160MHz channels that > provide much more bandwidth than today." > > Just reading the first couple of sentences it looks like it will make > a ton of illegal links and be a waste of RF spectrum. > > On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 7:48 PM, Mike Hammett <wispawirel...@ics-il.net> > wrote: >> http://www.electronista.com/articles/09/12/07/80211ac.process.underway/ >> >> >> ----- >> Mike Hammett >> Intelligent Computing Solutions >> http://www.ics-il.com >> >> >> >> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > ---- >> WISPA Wants You! Join today! >> http://signup.wispa.org/ >> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > ---- >> >> WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org >> >> Subscribe/Unsubscribe: >> http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless >> >> Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ >> > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > ---- > WISPA Wants You! Join today! > http://signup.wispa.org/ > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > ---- > > WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org > > Subscribe/Unsubscribe: > http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > > Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ > > > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > WISPA Wants You! Join today! > http://signup.wispa.org/ > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org > > Subscribe/Unsubscribe: > http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > > Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/