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1Gbps is not 100X faster than Wi-Fi, unless you're talking about 802.11g under marginal conditions.
by p1mrx 11y ago
1Gbps is not 100X faster than Wi-Fi, unless you're talking about 802.11g under marginal conditions.
- davb 11y agoI've come to take the BBC's tech reporting with a pinch of salt.
- dazc 11y agoYou can rely on the BBC to give you the right time and roughly what the weather was like yesterday. Otherwise forget it.
- TeMPOraL 11y agoGiven that everyone else's reporting is worth the same or even less, I wonder where do you still find salt for all of that? I've run out of mine long ago.
- coldtea 11y agoIf only the next line wasn't: "Laboratory tests have shown theoretical speeds of up to 224Gbps". Which is still not 100X from all wi-fi (more like 10x), but it indeed is 100x faster than the wifi speeds most see in practice.
- Quinner 11y agoSo you're comparing the theoretical speeds in lab tests to actual speeds in the real world of older wifi tech? That's not really a fair nitpick.
- coldtea 11y agoI'm not. The article is. I just explained their probable reasoning -- and that the 100x doesn't refer to the 1Gbps speed since they go on to talk about higher possible speeds.