The announcement came without much fanfare, but on Sept. 10 the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) finally ratified the 802.11n standard for wireless products to improve network ...

In theory, 802.11n can zip by your 100Mbps Fast Ethernet at a real-world 160Mbps, but the practice it's usually much slower. No, the Wi-FI vendors aren't lying; the problem is that you have to set 802 ...

Try out these Wi-Fi terms — 802.11b, 801.11g, and now 802.11n, not to mention 2.4 GHz versus 5 GHz frequencies. For the not-so-techie business owner, shopping for wireless networking gear can put a ...

Illustration: Mick Wiggins What a difference a couple of years makes. In our first roundup of draft-802.11n Wi-Fi routers (see “Wireless Routers: The Truth About Superfast Draft-N“), we found so many ...

Publication of the 560-page 802.11n amendment, entitled "WLAN Enhancements for Higher Throughput", to the 802.11 base standard is set for mid-October. Of course, most of the big players in the router ...

Broadcom Corp. this afternoon announced that it is moving ahead with next-generation 802.11 wireless LAN technology, making its 802.11n Intensi-fi family chipsets, the first solutions available ...

Wi-Fi systems enable products from different manufacturers to work together. This is made possible by international open systems, which no one manufacturer owns. All gain a commercial benefit by ...

Editor’s Note: This story is reprinted from Computerworld. For more Mac coverage, visit Computerworld’s Macintosh Knowledge Center. Wireless networking using the 802.11 standard, also known by its ...

For early adopters eager to build 802.11ac networks, Asus’s RT-AC66U is the best router for the job. Asus currently builds the best consumer-oriented 802.11n router—the RT-N66U Dual-Band Wireless N900 ...

Like lets say under "ideal" conditions, the 802.11n is transferring at 300Mbps. If a router is rated 900 for that band (5Ghz), does this mean there is still 600Mbps available for ac connections? Or ...

If you set up 802.11n Wi-Fi just right, you can get remarkable speeds from it. But, as fast as 802.11n can go, up to 300Mbps, Gigabit Wi-Fi promises to more than triple that speed. Vroom! That's the ...

Wireless networking using the 802.11 standard, also known by its trade name, Wi-Fi, has become common in the home and has a significant and growing role in corporate settings. But the existing ...