Contrary to popular belief, many of the connection problems
that home users encounter are often not related to their broadband service but
rather to the Wi-Fi routers.
But according to Paresh Dave at the LATimes, new technology
— 802.11ac — has the potential to be up to four times as fast as the current
standard 802.11n technology. Smartphones, computers and routers with the new
technology are already hitting store shelves, though industry experts don't
expect average consumers to start picking up the devices until the holiday
shopping season or early next year.
The technical improvements bring Wi-Fi up to par with the
sweeping changes in the home entertainment industry. The number of
Wi-Fi-connected devices in U.S.
households has doubled during the last five years, according to Wakefield
Research.
Smartphones, tablets and even appliances such as
refrigerators and washing machines now compete with televisions, gaming
consoles and laptops for a share of a finite network bandwidth. Increasingly,
many of those devices are also displaying hours of video a day, putting
incredible demand on the network.
The fifth generation of Wi-Fi tackles those problems by
increasing speed limits and moving to a new highway, from the congested lanes
of the 2.4-gigahertz frequency band to a more open 5-gigahertz spectrum.
The changes should mean that routers will be able to
accommodate more devices at one time and provide better coverage throughout a
home or office space.
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