RE:RE:dual - channel wi- fi ........Interesting that he talks about wifi6 being speeds up to 9.6 Gbsp where as he states theoretical speeds of only 1.3 Gbsp for AC.
One could only assume wifi6 won't perform up to it theoretical speeds of up 9.6 Gbsp?
In theory 1.3 Gbsp with multipule dedicated download only channels would compare how?
million dollar question, hopefully one day we can actually see it in action quote=Pandora]
This is the critical part of that review. As we know, the Dual Channel is still not in the market place and WiFi6 is just on the cusp of entering the market. The bottom part of this review says WiFi6 will make Dual Channel obsolete although I don't believe Andrew will admit to that. These guys after giving a complimentary overview of Dual Channel but finish off by saying WiFi6 using Mu-MiMo and OFDMA is a far better product. Do you suppose anyone from Edgewater or CableLabs will get on-line and rebut that claim or wiil they remain in the cocoon? "However, such performance improvements may be eclipsed by the new Wi-Fi 6 standard, which promises data-transfer speeds of up to 9.6 Gbps, far faster than the theoretical 802.11ac speed limit of 1.3Gbps. Further, as more devices are added onto your network, Wi-Fi 6 routers are designed to more effectively manage data requests, ensuring top data speeds are available across each device. Wi-FI 6 achieves this not through spectrum slicing, but by using multiple user, multiple input, multiple output (MU-MIMO) technology, enabling simultaneous connection with up to 8 devices, as well as the use of orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDMA), a technology permitting a single transmission to deliver data to multiple devices at once.
"I would say that what [Edgewater Wireless] is trying to do is great, and will work, but why do it now, knowing that there's new technology and new products on the horizon that will supersede [older WiFi technology]?" asks Andrew Drozd, CEO of ANDRO Computational Solutions LLC, a provider of research, engineering, and technical services related to the electromagnetic spectrum and wireless communications to defense and industrial clients. "If you wait just a little bit longer, I think we're going to have a much better way of [providing Wi-Fi] that will integrate and complement the access points more effectively, and provide more capability and capacity than we've had before."
While Edgewater Wireless' Skafel says its chipsets are cost-competitive with the Wi-Fi 6 chips being developed by Broadcom, Qualcomm, and other vendors, as a new standard, Wi-Fi 6 chips already are being incorporated into new end devices, including TVs, laptops, and smartphones, smoothing the path to widespread adoption.
"I think when CableLabs and Edge Wireless got together and started developing [Dual Channel Wi-Fi], it made a lot of sense, because at that point in time, people were complaining in the cable company -- 30% of [cable company] trouble calls was simply because their Wi-Fi was so congested," says Joe McCoy, director of technology transition for ANDRO Computational Solutions. "But are the cable companies going to adopt Dual Channel Wi-Fi or not? With the Wi-Fi 6 being out there, they might choose to wait for it."
Keith Kirkpatrick is principal of 4K Research & Consulting, LLC, based in Lynbrook, NY, USA.
I wonder who fed Keith Kirkpatrick the technology breakdown on Dual Channel? And if they knew he was going to skewer them?
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