Wi-Fi Alliance announces naming scheme shakeup

[Millennium]

It's a terrible idea assigning numbers to standardz

[DanceswithUnix]

having more antenna's is just adding more power to the transmitter/receiver, the world war 2 spectrum bands the public have access to are up against the earths gravity and the magnetosphere frequency, when it comes to the distance they can travel, which is why the weather affects signal strength

if wifi used a DAB protocol transmitter/receive, there would be more control over channels, and would be able to use better spectrum bands, between the emergency services and mobile telecomes, but your router would probably be using 400watts instead of 60watts

More antennas is about either using constructive interference to make use of multi-path distortion rather than having to fight it or talking to multiple users at the same time, the antennas do not transmit the exact same signal (well they sort of do for beam forming, but it is delayed).

Not sure what you mean by DAB protocol. The DAB modulation technique is a part of 802.11a, so has been part of the WiFi standard for ages. If you are talking about spectrum use, are you not referring to 802.11af "white-fi"? (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_802.11af). I don't think you can fault the IEEE on the technical merits of the WiFi standard to date, but the naming has gotten out of hand despite on the surface being a series of letters which should be in sequence, I guess from the gaps a lot of ideas never get adopted.

I can already see the WiFi of a lot of my neighbours mind, I don't think I want them having any greater range than they already have. My Draytek router claims to use 19W max with VDSL, dual band WiFi, 3 antenna MIMO and a 5 port gigabit switch. I shudder to think what you are using if it takes 60W, that's more than my house server PC running a small VM farm

[johnniedoo]

no big learning curve here, need to unlearn some current visual icons as noted above. shouldn't overheat anyone's brain getting them straight. never know, networking component manufacturer's network of visual icon development.NoVID if you will