Tim Higgins
So as an experiment, I’ve done the same thing for our Comments feature. If you’ve been hankering to weigh in on an article, but have been reluctant to register to do so, then you can now post away. Your comment will be submitted for moderation (hey, we’re not that naive), so it won’t appear right away.
Fingers crossed!
Come to find out that the news item we posted the other day about Netgear releasing 802.11n Draft 2.0 firmware ...
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.
I was looking through the June 11 Fortune and came across this article by Brent Schlender. The text doesn’t tell ...
