Edgewater Wireless Systems Inc V.YFI

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[Brian78]

Pandora wrote:

leodevoe wrote:

Let me explain Panny. AP's and routers have two or more radios. Until recently they had one 2.4Ghz radio and one 5Ghz radio. This way they can accommodate all wifi devices. Now you can get these products with 3 radios. Two are 5 GHz. 

Client devices, computers/tablets/phones etc have one radio. There is no practical need to connect to two different wifi networks at the same time. And why increase the cost of building a product for no value.

DCW needs clients to have two radios. I have seen zero in terms of any manufacturer planning to add another radio. Among the reasons they won't be doing this is wifi6. It addresses contention in a meaningful way. The number of devices a wifi6 can handle increases substantially. At speeds at least ten times what Yfi can offer. It's why DCW is a nothingburger. 

One final point. Let's say you have a 3 lane road. Each lane is moving at 20 mph. You can move a certain volume of cars from A to B. Then you have a single lane road and you're moving those same cars at 200 mph. Which iteration is moving more cars? Yfi used to be able to argue the single lane got jammed up. It was a bogus arguement with wifi5. Now with wifi6 and OFDMA it's ridiculous. 

Hope that clears things up. 

Will Dual Channel Wi-Fi be supported on phones and laptops?

Dual Channel Wi-Fi devices require two or more radios. With dual-band concurrent Wi-Fi chipsets becoming widely available, more and more devices will be Dual Channel Wi-Fi capable with a software update. In the interim, devices that support external Wi-Fi adapters can be used.

pandora, this sounds like a nothing burger. Leodevoe has already made it clear that it is cost prohibitive for client devices to have any ability to utilize dcw and since they are way more knowledgeable that you or I we should just take his word. Nothing burger all just a nothing burger!