Tim Higgins
This release from AirMagnet gave me a chuckle this morning. Seems it’s bad enough that putting up holiday decorations might get you reported to H.R. by those who don’t celebrate your particular holiday. But now they might also screw up your wireless LAN.
So while making your list and checking it twice, be sure to include a before and after WLAN site survey in your holiday preparations…
Over the weekend, we've tweaked the NAS and Router Charts to increase your product comparison pleasure.
The final standard is still over a year in the future and the Wi-Fi certification process for draft 11n products is about 3-5 months away. But companies are continuing to put this Beta-test-in-progress (which you, the consumer, are paying to participate in) into end-products beyond wireless routers and adapters. We've already seen draft 11n integrated into notebooks, and now Apple and D-Link have integrated it into networked media players.
The AppleTV announcement revealed that draft 11n capable hardware (from Atheros, it turns out) had already been integrated into existing Core 2 Duo MacBooks, MacBook Pros and Core 2 Duo iMacs (except the 17-inch, 1.83GHz iMac). All you need to do is run an "enabler" app, buy a new version of the Airport Extreme (in new Mac mini form factor) and voila, you have an interference generator for your 11b/g network. But something that Apple has done right is to put concurrent (or simultaneous) dual-band capability into its draft 11n products. This raises the cost, but also the flexibility since connections in both bands can be made at the same time.
If you're a frequent visitor to the Search box up there on the navigation bar, you will notice something new the next time you use it.
