Is the Broadband Internet Connection the Bottleneck?
There is a lot of competition between wireless home networking equipment makers. As a result, faster and faster wireless routers are all the rage. 802.11b started out with 11 Mbps and then 802.11g (and 802.11a) increased the speed to 54 Mbps. Extensions to 802.11g as well as the newest 802.11n standard are increasing the speed even more to 100 Mbps and beyond.
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Incidentally, 100 Mbps is the speed of most wired networks today. Some are still 10 Mbps. So wireless networking has caught up to, and in some cases surpassed, wired networking in terms of speed. Wired networking is already starting ...
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