Wi-Fi's new doping scandal
Next generation home networking could provide 100mbps.
John Borland Staff Writer, CNET News.com
John Borland
covers the intersection of digital entertainment and broadband.Might as well be steroids. Networking companies are proposing a next-generation Wi-Fi standard that will provide data transfer rates of about 100 mbps. The completed standard is expected in late 2006 or 2007.
Today's fast Wi-Fi (that'd be the "g" version, not the 802.11b that's on my laptop) has specs that allow up to 54mbps, but usually provide about half that.