My son enjoys the free WiFi at my local McDonalds! He uses it to download larger game and software applications for his Android phone.
WiFi is AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Yeah, the short attention-span generation needs to have its stuff NOW. No deferred gratification!!!
An hour or two or three is a looooooong time to go without Facebook status updates!
Derrel... Derrel... I almost want to call you old but i think we are the same age
WiFi isn't about social media! Its a tool... posting your DSLR selfy is just something you can do with the tool!
Fun fact... USB 2.0 speed is ~280Mbit/s (
35 MB/s)... 802.11ac (latest WiFi) speed is ~860Mbit/s (107MB/s). At that's the spec speed for 801.11ac enabled TABLETS!! With the right hardware it can reach up to 1-7 Gbit/s!!
Why do you need USB when WiFi is faster!!
Everything is going WiFi... and its cooooooool!
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Don't believe everything you read... most tech today uses a single stream, not the two or three needed for faster speeds that 802.11ac is capable of
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Single link (one device) = 500 Mbit/s (current tech speeds.. )
IEEE 802.11ac is a wireless
computer networking standard in the
802.11 family (which is marketed under the brand name
Wi-Fi), developed in the
IEEE Standards Association process,[SUP]
[1][/SUP] providing high-throughput
wireless local area networks (WLANs) on the
5 GHz band.[SUP]
[1][/SUP] The standard was developed from 2011 through 2013, with final 802.11 Working Group approval and publication scheduled for early 2014.[SUP]
[1][/SUP] According to a study, devices with the 802.11ac specification are expected to be common by 2015 with an estimated one billion spread around the world.[SUP]
[2][/SUP] This specification has expected multi-station WLAN throughput of at least 1
gigabit per second and a single link throughput of at least 500 megabits per second (500 Mbit/s). This is accomplished by extending the air interface concepts embraced by
802.11n: wider RF bandwidth (up to 160 MHz), more
MIMO spatial streams (up to 8),
multi-user MIMO, and high-density modulation (up to 256-
QAM).[SUP]
[3][/SUP]
IEEE 802.11ac - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
From CISCO...
802.11ac: The Fifth Generation of Wi-Fi Technical White Paper* [Cisco Aironet 3600 Series] - Cisco Systems
The design constraints and economics that kept 802.11n products at one, two, or three spatial streams haven't changed much for 802.11ac, so we can expect the same kind of product availability, with
first-wave 802.11ac products built around 80 MHz and delivering up to 433 Mbps (low end),
867 Mbps (midtier), or
1300 Mbps (high end) at the physical layer. Second-generation products promise still more channel bonding and spatial streams, with plausible product configurations operating at up to 3.47 Gbps.
ZDNet article on why it isn't as fast as it could be (except in a laboratory)
Gigabit Wi-Fi: 802.11ac is here: Five things you need to know | ZDNet
