Broadcom to offer 3.2 Gbps WiFi XStream

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  1. Hilbert Hagedoorn

    Hilbert Hagedoorn Don Vito Corleone Staff Member

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    Broadcom Corporation, a global innovation leader in semiconductor solutions for wired and wireless communications, today introduced the industry's first six stream 802.11ac MIMO platform for home net...

    Broadcom to offer 3.2 Gbps WiFi XStream
     
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    WhiteLightning Don Illuminati Staff Member

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    wow very nice! :thumbup:
     
  3. Ven0m

    Ven0m Ancient Guru

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    I'd like to see it sustaining at least 1/10 of advertised speeds.
     
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    lucidus Ancient Guru

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    Sounds expensive :p
     

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    maikai Maha Guru

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    ^^This!
    Also its going to take another 157 years till the average amount of wifi devices in the home increase from 7-11? I wonder who comes up with these scientific findings. That is hell of future proofing. Most homes might have their own space shuttles also, should I just go out and buy one now?
     
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    k3vst3r Ancient Guru

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    Typing error, will meant 2017

    Think my home on 18 or so wireless devices
     
  7. sykozis

    sykozis Ancient Guru

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    From 2014 to 20171 is 18157 years.....

    My house has 2 smartphones, 2 tablets, a Roku, a printer, 2 laptops and a blu-ray player....so I'm already at 9.... Won't take me 3 years to reach 11....

    This does sound quite expensive though..... For some reason, router prices have been climbing anyway. It's hard to find a Gigabit router for a reasonable price. With so much going wireless, it seems that router manufacturers are content with slow 100Mb/s LAN ports. If I'm running a home media server, why would I want 100Mb/s LAN ports on an N or AC router? It makes no sense.
     
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    lucidus Ancient Guru

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    Why does a blu ray player need an internet connection? :-S

    I just have 2 phones, a tab, and a laptop as wireless devices in the household :p
     
  9. Corrupt^

    Corrupt^ Ancient Guru

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    Not so much here. If it's stationary and has a ethernet connection, ethernet it shall be. In order to save power WiFi also shuts down at night when people are asleep (ty ASUS for this handy feature).
     
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    BD-Live requires internet.....as do the streaming features built into my blu-ray players. A lot of blu-ray players also have to get firmware updates to be able to play newer blu-ray discs because blu-ray is an "ever evolving standard"..... Yeah, it's stupid. DVD players had the advantage of being able to play any DVD without the need for firmware updates.

    I had a Belkin router that could turn off WiFi on a set schedule. Problem was that it didn't want to turn WiFi back on without being rebooted.....lol
     

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