YOU might understand it.....

http://www.cemag.us/news/2016/04/new-technology-doubles-wi-fi-capacity?et_cid=5234717&et_rid=916553762&type=cta&et_cid=5234717&et_rid=916553762&linkid=http%3a%2f%2fwww.cemag.us%2fnews%2f2016%2f04%2fnew-technology-doubles-wi-fi-capacity%3fet_cid%3d5234717%26et_rid%3d%25%25subscriberid%25%25%26type%3dcta

Stuff I deal with, speed is rarely the issue... number of concurrent users with no performance degradation is the limiting factor... plus who needs those speeds on a wireless device?

As tech moves on someone will find a use for it - people with poor broadband for example.

 

However I'm not 100% convinced imn most of the common applications there will be such a large gain by going full duplex, most connections are asymmetric for a reason.

Might mean they can squeeze in more users solving some of the concurrency issues you get in larger wifi installations.

 

Can't say I understand the physics, maybe they are polarising the signal or summit like that.

 

It sill won't stop managers from assuming wifi means wireless therefore everywhere. So they'll keep screaming at IT as to why they've no signal at the top of a mountain in the middle of bloody nowhere.

I recon capability will result in demand .

 So they'll keep screaming at IT as to why they've no signal at the top of a mountain in the middle of bloody nowhere.

 

Always makes me laugh, you can't get a Signal on a Mountain yet we can talk to a Spacecraft on Mars.

As tech moves on someone will find a use for it - people with poor broadband for example.

 

However I'm not 100% convinced imn most of the common applications there will be such a large gain by going full duplex, most connections are asymmetric for a reason.

 

But BT already have an answer for that, they are now going to offer an "Up to 18Mb" fibre service for people on slow ADSL lines.

This is for military use, perhaps wifi control of drones and video feeds back in real time?

 

Who knows, but it's clearly got a military funding from the RF-FPGA fund.

Probably using FPGA to read sensors and talk to each other via the wi-fi, to for some sort of decision making grid / self learning grid of nodes.

 

Frankly phrases in there sound like buzzword bingo too, so I'm not too concerned.

But BT already have an answer for that, they are now going to offer an "Up to 18Mb" fibre service for people on slow ADSL lines.

Of course the "up to 18Mb" service means precisely that - no guarantee that the speeds will be anywhere close to 18Mb

Of course the "up to 18Mb" service means precisely that - no guarantee that the speeds will be anywhere close to 18Mb

 

True, but they have a USO of 10Mbps to meet (and they have an entirely DIFFERENT Fibre product being tested for that); so I suspect the 18Mb service will be close to 18Mb, or they wouldnt bother.

 

Of course I could be wrong; with the cheese-paring they have been doing to the standard Fibre packages lately, I can see the possibility of a 10Mb service, a 12Mb service, and 14Mb service etc, etc.

 

Along with the crappy data limits they CLAIM to have removed, but which are still mentioned in the small print on many of the TV adverts.

 

An adaptation of RF jamming techniques to a positive end ?

 

 

Nick