7gbs WiFi Comming Soon

[ionbasa]

 

It took a while, but 802.11ac Wi-Fi, with its theoretical maximum of 1.3 Gigabit per second (Gbps) devices,  finally started showing up in the summer of 2013. That's fast, but faster is on its way. 802.11ac-2013 will break existing Wi-Fi speed-records with a screaming 7 Gbps of data in the 5GHz range.

 

.....That all sounds good, but the big question is: When will companies actually start shipping 802.11ac-2013 gear? No one is saying yet. I expect the usual suspects -- Cisco, Linksys, D-Link, and Juniper -- will start shipping early adopter gear by the 3rd quarter of 2014 and mass production runs will appear in time for the 2014 holiday season.

 

Source:

http://www.zdnet.com/super-fast-wi-fi-coming-802-11ac-2013-7000025352/

 

The way I understand it is that it is an update to 802.11ac that adds the following features:

• 80 and 160MHz channel assignments
• 256 QAM modulator
• Beam forming
• Updated MIMO
• Up to 8 streams

 

Personally, I need this now, I have alot of movies on my NAS, along with documents and family photos. It would be nice not to have to run an Ethernet cable to my HTPC in order to playback 4K content in the future.

 

EDIT:

Ehh... Correct me if I am wrong but I am pretty sure this is not something new. 802.11ac already had 160MHz channels, 8 spatial streams, MU MIMO and 256QAM in the specs.

The post on IEEE's website is about 802.11ac as well. It seems to me that the guy on zdnet saw the 2013 at the end and thought it was a new revision, but in reality this just means that the standard has finally been approved (all current 802.11ac equipment only follows the draft specs).

The full name of the 802.11n amendment is 802.11n-2009 for example.

The full name of the 802.11ac amendment is 802.11ac-2013.

 

Essentially 802.11 is basically no longer "draft" but "approved".

[AlwaysFSX]

That's really fast. And that's an understatement.... Hot damn.

[Kilerbomb]

Holy shit!

[qwertywarrior]

is this a joke

NAME IT SOMETHING ELSE !!! not AC !

 

how will people differentiate

this isn't apple world

 

hi sir i would like a wireless AC 2013 model

will there be a 2014 model too ?

[Titanicium]

is this a joke

NAME IT SOMETHING ELSE !!! not AC !

 

how will people differentiate

this isn't apple world

 

hi sir i would like a wireless AC 2013 model

will there be a 2014 model too ?

 

It's probably just a name used now since we don't know the exact name of it

 

Anyway: Awesome, and pure awesome, but who actually got the bandwidth to hit the current maximum at home? People are still mainly at 10 Mbs and under...

[ChillKyle]

Name it something a bit funny like 802.11P

[yorky321]

is this a joke

NAME IT SOMETHING ELSE !!! not AC !

 

how will people differentiate

this isn't apple world

 

hi sir i would like a wireless AC 2013 model

will there be a 2014 model too ?

Nah they'll probably end up calling it the Wireless AC - S 

[LAwLz]

Ehh... Correct me if I am wrong but I am pretty sure this is not something new. 802.11ac already had 160MHz channels, 8 spatial streams, MU MIMO and 256QAM in the specs.

The post on IEEE's website is about 802.11ac as well. It seems to me that the guy on zdnet saw the 2013 at the end and thought it was a new revision, but in reality this just means that the standard has finally been approved (all current 802.11ac equipment only follows the draft specs).

The full name of the 802.11n amendment is 802.11n-2009 for example.

The full name of the 802.11ac amendment is 802.11ac-2013.

[Jaytec359]

But what about the latency?

Oh won't someone think about the children.... err I mean latency...
I would imagine Beamforming should reduce it by quiet a bit.

[Shjinta]

O_o mega fast... I need this in my rural farm area.. Though, this speed on my current Xplornet 5mbps connection would most likely blow up their satellite .

[ionbasa]

Ehh... Correct me if I am wrong but I am pretty sure this is not something new. 802.11ac already had 160MHz channels, 8 spatial streams, MU MIMO and 256QAM in the specs.

The post on IEEE's website is about 802.11ac as well. It seems to me that the guy on zdnet saw the 2013 at the end and thought it was a new revision, but in reality this just means that the standard has finally been approved (all current 802.11ac equipment only follows the draft specs).

The full name of the 802.11n amendment is 802.11n-2009 for example.

The full name of the 802.11ac amendment is 802.11ac-2013.

Just did a little research and you are right, the guy a zdnet done goofed.

 

I will append your info in the OP.

[LAwLz]

But what about the latency?

Oh won't someone think about the children.... err I mean latency...

I would imagine Beamforming should reduce it by quiet a bit.

You might get lower latency because there is a cleaner signal and less risk of having to resend stuff, but other than that it will be the same. The guard interval is the same (400ns), the waves still travel at the same speed (the speed of light) and you still have all the extra error correction/detection 802.11n has.

 

 

O_o mega fast... I need this in my rural farm area.. Though, this speed on my current Xplornet 5mbps connection would most likely blow up their satellite .

This is just LAN sadly, as in transferring files from one computer in your house to another one in your house. Although, the 5G testing in South Korea sounds pretty awesome.

[DudeWazap]

I need this.

[AuXDubz]

Sweet mother of Gaben.

[jksluv]

Nice. I guess it was worth skipping 802.11-ac. Im rocking on my Asus RT-N56U with custom firmware. And did not have any problem yet since it can handle 300k simultaneous connections(torrenting with no prob). But I would love to get faster connectivity since im very interested in game streaming. 1.3gbps isnt enough for me though.

[flibberdipper]

Holy crap.

[Misanthrope]

is this a joke

NAME IT SOMETHING ELSE !!! not AC !

 

But then it wouldn't reference a certain grindcore band!

[ionbasa]

Nice. I guess it was worth skipping 802.11-ac. Im rocking on my Asus RT-N56U with custom firmware. And did not have any problem yet since it can handle 300k simultaneous connections(torrenting with no prob). But I would love to get faster connectivity since im very interested in game streaming. 1.3gbps isnt enough for me though.

You have to remeber that the total throughput generally gets divided by the total number of devices connected to an access point. So if you are like me, I have the following connected to WiFI in our house: 3 laptops, 2 cellphones, 1 ipod touch, 3 roku streaming boxes, and a thermostat.

 

So you could see why 1.3gbps is not actually that much when you have many clients connected.

[LessThanSatisfactory]

This will be terrible for gaming because the speed might be great for something like media sharing/streaming or just general LAN file sharing, but the ping times are going to be tremendously slow because it needs to go through multiple machines, maybe 3-4 in a worse case scenario. Plus, I don't want other people to slow down my movie streaming by connecting to my laptop and playing games or watching video. I don't want to seem anti-free internet, but I feel like this technology will only be reserved for office spaces and personal media networks.

[ionbasa]

This will be terrible for gaming because the speed might be great for something like media sharing/streaming or just general LAN file sharing, but the ping times are going to be tremendously slow because it needs to go through multiple machines, maybe 3-4 in a worse case scenario. Plus, I don't want other people to slow down my movie streaming by connecting to my laptop and playing games or watching video. I don't want to seem anti-free internet, but I feel like this technology will only be reserved for office spaces and personal media networks.

I think you may have misunderstood, faster transfer speeds will result in lower ping times, and because of beam forming, as devices connect, throughput can be better sustained.

 

Also this will come to the home, the previous "AC" routers were only draft spec. Now if a company wants to call a router "AC" compliant it has to meet the spec in full.