There are plenty of benefits to the 802.11ac Wi-Fi standard, and the second wave offers up even more. Let's be honest, the world of wireless Internet standards is a bit dull. The technology behind the ...

Your 802.11n wireless network and devices are about to become passé. Although the official 802.11ac specification won’t be finalized until sometime in 2013, wireless equipment will soon appear on ...

Faster Wi-Fi: It's something we all crave. Fortunately, it's also something we can have, even on a budget. It's not just about fast Internet speeds to and from your service provider. It's also about ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. If you thought Wi-Fi couldn't get much faster than 802.11n, think again. 802.11ac, dubbed 5G ...

The big deal about 802.11ac, or “gigabit Wi-Fi,” is the promise of much higher speeds for Wi-Fi clients compared to the maximums under 802.11n today. But 11ac is actually several big deals, including ...

The latest WiFi specification promises speed and capacity advantages, but the performance it delivers will depend on your district's devices and infrastructure. As districts upgrade or expand their ...

If your business has kept pace with changes in wireless networking, you’ve deployed dual-band routers and client adapters that can stream encrypted data over the airwaves at speeds greater than 100 ...

The standard offers theoretical speeds ranging from 6.5 Mbps to 866.7 Mbps. There is always another standard coming. This one focused on high throughput wireless networks. It is the IEEE standard ...

The IEEE’s family of 802.11 wireless protocols has been one of the technical success stories of the past decade. It tends to get lost in the shadow of the cellular technology. But Wi-Fi is a winner, ...

Today, Linksys, a division of Belkin Electronics, released the first commercially available 802.11ac Wave 2 Multi-User MIMO router, the EA8500. Now, you might ask, "So what? 802.11ac has been around ...

Wireless standards tend to get proposed, drafted, and finally accepted at what seems like a glacial pace. It's been roughly 17 years since we began to see the first 802.11b wireless routers and ...

A question we’re hearing with increasing frequency concerns the upcoming 802.11ac standard, which promises to do to 802.11n what .11n did to .11g. While the IEEE 802.11ac standard likely won’t be ...