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You are here: Home / Tech / Android / 802.11ac wifi will be three times faster than your N and available in May

802.11ac wifi will be three times faster than your N and available in May

April 27, 2012 by Paul Spoerry 2 Comments

Ready for Gigabit WiFi? Starting in May you’ll be able to purchase a Netgear router that supports speeds three times that of your current 802.11n wifi router.

Wifi capable of 1.3Gbps coming in May

Starting in May Netgear will begin selling the worlds first 802.11ac router. This 5GHz “next gen” router is reported to be three times faster than existing 802.11n WiFi routers and will be able capable of speeds up to 1.3Gbps.

Gigibit 802.11ac wifi comingNetgear’s R6300 router will be the first running Broadcom’s new WiFi chip. The new chip only transmits in the 5GHz band, which is a lot less crowded than the 2.4GHz band most WiFi devices run on today. It can also combine it’s channels so that it has up to 80 MHz of bandwidth available to it at once. The 802.11ac standard also improves range, using a technology called Beamforming that directs data directly at a receiving device. While 802.11n also is capable of Beamforming, different manufacturers use different technologies, so it doesn’t always work as well as it should. With 802.11ac, the process is supposed be more standardized.

Keep in mind that in order to achieve those speeds you’ll need your devices to be running 802.11ac hardware as well. Currently, there aren’t any but companies like Broadcom, Qualcomm, and Quantenna are manufacturing chips to make devices 802.11ac-compatible by the beginning of next year, when the IEEE expects to ratify the new WiFi standard’s specifications.

1.3 Gbps is a lot faster than most home and business Internet connections. In fact, current 802.11n routers, with speeds in the 300-600 megabits per second range, are also faster than most Internet connections. You might then ask why we need this faster WiFi?! More and more often we’re connecting more and more devices in our homes. Heck we can even manage our Android’s over WiFi. We’re also streaming media throughout our houses and this level of bandwidth would help with that. It should also future-proof our WiFi as broadband continues to provide faster speeds.

Keep in mind that just like with early 802.11n equipment, Netgear’s router is based on a draft of the 802.11ac standard. Final approval by the IEEE isn’t expected until sometime in 2013. The spec could change between now and then and those changes might not make it out to this hardware.

The router will be available for consumer purchase in May, at a price of $199.99. You can read Netgear’s full press release for more details.

Filed Under: Android, Tech Tagged With: 1.3bps, at, router, runs

About Paul Spoerry

I’m a groovy cat who’s into technology, Eastern Thought, and house music. I’m a proud and dedicated father to the coolest little guy on the planet (seriously, I'm NOT biased). I’m fascinated by ninjas, the Internet, and anybody who can balance objects on their nose for long periods of time.

I have a utility belt full of programming languages and a database of all my knowledge on databases... I practice code fu. Oh, I've also done actual Kung Fu, and have a black belt in Tae Kwon Do.

I run. I meditate. I dance. I blog at PaulSpoerry.com, tweet @PaulSpoerry, and I'm here on Google+.

I'm currently work for IBM developing web enabled insurance applications for IBM and support and develop a non-profit called The LittleBigFund.

Comments

  1. Chris says

    May 8, 2012 at 3:52 am

    I think you’re missing a couple of “G’s” Paul. 1.3bps is very old school wifi 😉

  2. Paul Spoerry says

    May 8, 2012 at 6:48 am

    lol! Damn that was a big miss, thanks Chris. I had it correctly stated further down but the H2 tag was way offbase. THANKS!

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