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U.S. broadband actually approaches advertised speeds
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4G is a hot topic here on BGR and as such, we’ve likely become more numb than we should when it comes to advertised data speeds. We’re so used to seeing “theoretical limits” that are so far from reality we just chuckle and move along. The wireline broadband industry, however, is a different beast. According to a study recently conducted by the Federal Communications Commission, major broadband Internet service provides in the U.S. deliver data speeds that are generally between 80% and 90% of the speeds they advertise. The Associated Press reports that the FCC’s study measured data speeds delivered to thousands of U.S. broadband subscribers this past March from 13 of the nation’s top ISPs inc...
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U.S., Canada, Mexico Come to Terms Over Spectrum Sharing
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On Monday the Federal Communications Commission announced that it has struck a spectrum-sharing arrangement with Industry Canada and Mexico's Secretariat of Communications and Transportation for spectrum located along shared borders. The U.S. will share commercial broadband spectrum in the 700MHz band with both Canada and Mexico, as well as 800MHz spectrum with just Canada. According to the FCC, this set of arrangements will speed up the deployment of mobile wireless broadband systems near the borders, and provide consumers in these areas with access to 4G high-speed mobile broadband services.
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German geniuses hit 800Mbps with light bulb WLAN
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Last year, Chinese scientists showed off some new old-school tech, transmitting data with blue LEDs that flicker faster than the human eye can perceive. This throwback back to the good ol' days of IR receivers was able to hit speeds of 2Mbps, but leave it to the fine folks at the Heinrich Hertz Institute to push the light bulb networking tech to the extremes. Earlier this year researchers hit 500Mbps with white LEDs now, using a combination of white, green, blue, and red, the team ramped that up to 800Mbps, officially putting Ethernet on notice. The line-of-site networking wont actually replace your standard Cat 5 line or WiFi router, but it could find a home in places like hospitals where r...
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WiFi 802.22 Technology Promises Wireless Data Over 60 Miles: Say Goodbye to Data Plans
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It’s the news bit you’ve been waiting years to hear! The folks at the IEEE standards body have today announced a next-generation WiFi IEEE 802.22TM standard – technology that’s designed to facilitate wireless data transfer up to 60 miles (or a hundred kilometers) at 22Mbps. This technology is said to work over these great distances by utilizing television bands – without interfering with the reception of existing television broadcast stations at that. Imagine it – connect to your HambergerDLX network anywhere inside your town from your smartphone with no data plan costs. Magical freedom!
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IEEE wraps up standard for 22Mbps white space wireless
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The IEEE announced today that it had finalized the 802.22TM white space wireless standards for Wireless Regional Area Networks (WRAN). White space wireless, sometimes called "super Wi-Fi" because of its long range capability and faster throughput, broadcasts data on unused, unlicensed frequencies that were designated for VHF and UHF television broadcast. The new standard will be capable of providing broadband wireless access over a large area, with a range of more than 60 miles from the transmitter. White space wireless can deliver up to 22 Mbps per channel.
The white space standard was sought by Microsoft and other companies to make broadband access available in areas where extending wired ...
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Linksys WES610N Wireless-N Bridge gets your HDTV, console & STB online
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Linksys by Cisco has outed its latest entertainment bridge, the WES610N Wireless-N Bridge, intended to hook up your ethernet-port toting HDTV, cable and other STBs, and consoles like the Xbox 360 and PS3 to your WiFi network. The WES610N offers a choice of 2.3GHz or 5GHz wireless (though not simultaneously) and has four 10/100 ethernet ports.
The bridge supports WiFi a/b/g/n and has a trio of antennas inside its black plastic chassis. All the usual encryption types are offered, along with WPS for easier setup, and Linksys is pretty keen on its quality-of-service software which promises stutter-free HD video.
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TRENDnet Now Shipping First Dual Band Router to Support 450 Mbps on Both Bands
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TRENDnet, a best-in-class wired and wireless networking hardware brand, today announces the availability of the first to market 450Mbps Concurrent Dual Band Wireless N Router, model TEW-692GR.
This is the first router to offer full 450 Mbps speeds on both the 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz wireless bands concurrently-for a total theoretical throughput of 900 Mbps. A popular Dual Band network configuration is to assign the low interference 5 GHz band to media center devices and the more popular 2.4 GHz band to computers and peripherals that are typically only able to connect using the 2.4 GHz frequency.
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NTT demonstrates next-gen 802.11ac wireless system
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The Wi-Fi Alliance has been working to push wireless speeds into gigabit territory for a couple of years now, and it appears that Japanese mobile operator NTT DoCoMo is on board to make this a reality. During the Wireless Technology Park event in Yokohama City, NTT demonstrated a prototype 802.11ac Wi-Fi implementation, and though there's still work to be done towards faster speeds in multi-user scenarios the company is working to have it ready by 2013.
Currently, higher speeds are being achieved with a single receiver, whereas in the three-user setup demonstrated by NTT the speed was dropped to 120Mbps per user at the same time. The wireless transmission was realized by using a space divisi...
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Sprint, Clearwire Expand NYC WiMax Footprint
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Sprint and Clearwire today announced a significant expansion of their joint WiMax network in the New York City metro area. The companies say that the regional network has grown by 21%, and now covers 11.93 million people between New Jersey and Long Island. Some of the new areas now covered by WiMax include: Alpine, Bayonne, Elizabeth, Fair Lawn, Newark, Paramus, Secaucus, and Union, N.J.; and Hartsdale, New Rochelle, New York, Rockville Centre, and Yonkers, N.Y. Sprint and Clearwire have slowed down the number of new market launches this year as Clearwire seeks more funding.
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iPass wants a world of interconnected WiFi, a roaming 'renaissance'
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Some ideas are undeniably sensible, and zero-click WiFi roaming across carriers and countries is one of them. That's why iPass has set itself the unenviable but likely profitable task of convincing global telecoms giants to overlook their differences and form an "Open Mobile Exchange" based on its cloud-based authentication technology. It won't be the first to embark on such a voyage of persuasion: Skype is already on the case and Boingo is too (at least, sort of), but there are still plenty of fragmented hotspot services out there waiting to be crushed and blended by an effortless roaming technology. We just hope iPass has perfected its pleading email template: "Dearest Carrier, have you co...
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NTT shows off 1Gbps 802.11ac Wi-Fi
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Japanese technology company NTT has shown off a prototype version of 802.11ac Wi-Fi at the Wireless Technology Park show in the country. The demo sent data simultaneously to three users with an effective throughput of 120Mbps. NTT plans to commercialize the system with a few years for homes and offices.
The setup used a space division multiplex connection method based on multi-user MIMO (multiple in, multiple out) technology developed by NTT and on the same 5GHz frequency band as 802.11n Wi-Fi uses today. Six antennas were used for transmission and three for reception. The transmission side used a multi-user MIMO signal processing circuit thanks to a Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) chip...
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Sonic.net starts trial of 1Gbps fiber-to-the-home internet in California, asks just $70
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You'll be forgiven for not being intimately familiar with Californian ISP Sonic.net, though we get the feeling you'll also wish it operated a little closer to your abode by the time you've finished re...
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Today's World IPv6 Day: Google, Bing, Facebook and others test out new addresses for 24 hours
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Described as a "test flight" of IPv6, today marks the biggest concerted effort by some of the web's marquee players to turn us all on to the newer, fancier web addressing system. Internet Protocol ver...
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TRENDnet Launches First Dual Band Router to Support 450 Mbps on Both Bands
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TRENDnet, a best-in-class wired and wireless networking hardware brand, today from COMPUTEX Taipei announces the availability of the first to market 450Mbps Concurrent Dual Band Wireless N Router, mod...
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Wireless comms 'under threat' from climate change
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government report published today warns that climate change could damage the UK's wireless communications infrastructure.
It may sound like a last-ditch attempt to get us on board with wind farms, but...
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