Tim Higgins
TRENDnet today announced a three-stream N Gigabit router.
The TEW-691GR 450Mbps Wireless N Gigabit Router is a 2.4 GHz single band router using three streams for up to 450 Mbps maximum link rate when 40 MHz channel mode is used.
Features include one WAN and four LAN Gigabit Ethernet ports, WMM and QoS support and WPS wireless security.
No companion client adapters were announced.
The TEW-691GR will be available in May at a suggested list price of $159.99.
T-Mobile USA today nationally launched a wireless service that extends its combination cellular / Wi-Fi hotspot service to home wireless LANs.
Wayport operates McDonald's Wi-Fi service in a unique arrangement: iPass will now resell access to its mobile corporate customers to the 7,500 unwired McDonald's locations in the U.S. that Wayport services. iPass offers typically metered access to Wi-Fi, dial-up, and other broadband that contrasts with subscription-based, per-user services. Wayport's unique deal at McDonald's is that, at least until now, they have sold access to the entire chain on a fixed monthly fee basis as part of their Wi-Fi World arrangement announced in May 2004. In most aggregation and resale agreements, payments are made on a per-session basis from the
Buffalo Technology has announced a new single-band 802.11n router.
