From: Brian Atkins (brian@posthuman.com)
Date: Sun Sep 29 2002 - 09:06:43 MDT
Reason wrote:>
>>>
>>WiFi isn't fast enough. We really need speeds above 20mbit or so both
>>ways at a minimum to get anywhere near interesting.
>
> Um, 802.11g will go up to 54Mb/s and is backwards compatible with 802.11b.
> You can expect to see the first equipment fairly soon. I don't keep tabs on
> those manufacturers, so I couldn't tell you when. The standard was passed in
> January, so figure Q2 next year maybe.
>
> What is it that you can't do at 20Mb/s that you're so hot for?
>
Does the WiFi term encompass all the 802.11x standards? Anyway, how far
out from the base does the 54Mb/s extend? I would certainly ditch at
least one of my broadband connections if that was available... build it
and I will come ;-)
I'd like to be able to do multi-way hdtv-quality videoconferencing and
other immersive forms of communication and entertainment. A single
stream of hdtv compressed using mpeg2 takes around 20Mb/s I think,
although I'm sure you could halve that with better compression and
probably lowering quality.
-- Brian Atkins Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence http://www.singinst.org/
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