Airport Extreme X2 and X4?
Among other rumors floating around the mill looking forward to tomorrow's Keynote Speech, minor details have emerged about upcoming use of 802.11n wireless networking. Found in the MacWorld Conference & Expo PI: Advanced Wireless outlook, the description starts with:
Readers also note the recent lack of any availability of Airport base stations on Apple's website, with a refresh to the base station rumored as recently as September of 2006.
Wireless networking is about to undergo major changes, with 802.11n, or Airport Extreme X2 and X4.
Apple has been rumored to be including the faster "n" soon-to-be standard (up to 600 mb/s), with recent curiosities of the protocol showing up in the latest iMac, MacBook Pro and most recently MacBooks.Readers also note the recent lack of any availability of Airport base stations on Apple's website, with a refresh to the base station rumored as recently as September of 2006.
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67 months ago
Yeah, I was wondering how they were planing on doing 802.11n with the existing Airport Extreme base stations.
But i wonder hoe X2 and X4 would differ?
But i wonder hoe X2 and X4 would differ?
67 months ago
It wasn't too hard to see this one coming, what with the new 802.11n standard and all, it was more just a question of when. And if that "when" is tomorrow, even better! ;) :cool:
67 months ago
Hand in hand with the iTV stuff then. And the pre-n hardware in recent machines.
67 months ago
I really hope they include a user-installable 802.11n Airport card for those of us with pre-intel machines.
67 months ago
Seems to be a requirement for the iTV product. They'll need the bandwidth to stream 1080p, and Jobs would be a sucker to introduce a TV related product in 2007 that can't handle 1080p.
I've been waiting for this more than anything else -- one more month of sucky Linksys daily crashes!!!
I've been waiting for this more than anything else -- one more month of sucky Linksys daily crashes!!!
67 months ago
man i havent posted in a while, and im kinda ashamed my return to the forum coincides with quicker access to pornography posts :D
67 months ago
I hope Apple dont shoot themselves in the foot with this and the 'iTV'. From what I can gather the iTV will require 802.11n to work effectively at high bandwidth but this will limit to people who have bought a mac within the last few months. I either hope they release a 802.11n card which is compatible with the extreme cards or they have some other fancy way of getting around it!
67 months ago
wasn't the new iTV supposed to serve also as a wireless router? maybe it will come with Wireless N.
but the question is, would the mac owners without the new N card notice any difference with N router?
but the question is, would the mac owners without the new N card notice any difference with N router?
67 months ago
faster p0rn download is right around the corner with new airport express.
while I get this is a joke, what makes more sense is that internal networking on high-speed networks will see major speed increases over previous technology, while "surfing the net" will remain at the present speed due to the bottleneck for most users being the download bandwidth provided by their ISP's. The majority of broadband users on cable or DSL receive only 4-5 mb/s of bandwidth, which is available at full speed from even the first-round wireless products in the 802.11b genre.
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