Tim Higgins
hField Technologies just launched new Mac OS software for its Wi-Fire long-range USB Wi-Fi adapter.
The new Wi-Fire Connection Manager 2.0 for Mac runs from an icon in the Mac’s Menu Bar and shows signal strength and quality, SSID and encryption type for each in-range network.
The new utility is a free download and works on PPC and Intel Mac’s running OS X 10.4, 10.5 and 10.6.
The Wi-Fire itself is available for around $59
Broadcom today announced what it says is the world's first full-featured, single-chip 802.11n solution.
The Broadcom BCM4322 combines all of the elements of a wireless LAN subsystem onto a single silicon die, including 802.11 MAC, baseband processor, 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz radios and other WLAN components. Broadcom claims that the device can deliver " over 200 Mbps of actual wireless throughput".
Broadcom today announced a new single-chip Wi-Fi router combining an 802.11g wireless LAN baseband / MAC, 2.4 GHz radio, 10/100 Ethernet switch and MIPS processor.
Netgear today announced the availability of a residential gateway with integrated 3G "femtocell" cellular base station.
The DVG834GH Femtocell Voice Gateway incorporates an ADSL2+ modem, router with SPI+NAT firewall, 10/100 switch, 802.11g wireless access point, Voice over-IP (VoIP) and 3G "ZoneGate" femtocell technology from Ubiquisys Ltd.
