Draft-N in action
Tales from a London demo
Yesterday I went to London to see 802.11n in action. Inside a well-worn meeting room at the Hilton Olympia, Buffalo and Broadcom had set up a selection of laptops linked to a Buffalo Nfiniti Draft-N router. This was in turn plugged into a Buffalo Terastation Pro handily stocked with stored HD content.
The first part of the demo involved the transfer of several HD streams from the Terastation onto various laptops along the desks. I witnessed 15Mbps and 20Mbps streams being transferred simultaneously. It worked brilliantly. Craig Reid, Product Specialist for Buffalo assured me they had managed to get three simultaneous streams working, but as everyone in the hotel got up and started to use the hotel Wi-Fi, there was obvious signal degredation. Due to technical problems with one of the laptops, I didn't see a Chariot test in action, but earlier results had indicated results upwards of 120Mbps - that's seriously good. We'll get the chance to have a play ourselves later this week.
Broadcom was also using an excellent spectrum analyser called the Wi-Spy. It's only GBP100 and picks up any signals in the 2.4GHz spectrum. Easy interference spotting, then. However, lack of 5GHz compatibility could limit its usefulness.
Yesterday I went to London to see 802.11n in action. Inside a well-worn meeting room at the Hilton Olympia, Buffalo and Broadcom had set up a selection of laptops linked to a Buffalo Nfiniti Draft-N router. This was in turn plugged into a Buffalo Terastation Pro handily stocked with stored HD content.
The first part of the demo involved the transfer of several HD streams from the Terastation onto various laptops along the desks. I witnessed 15Mbps and 20Mbps streams being transferred simultaneously. It worked brilliantly. Craig Reid, Product Specialist for Buffalo assured me they had managed to get three simultaneous streams working, but as everyone in the hotel got up and started to use the hotel Wi-Fi, there was obvious signal degredation. Due to technical problems with one of the laptops, I didn't see a Chariot test in action, but earlier results had indicated results upwards of 120Mbps - that's seriously good. We'll get the chance to have a play ourselves later this week.
Broadcom was also using an excellent spectrum analyser called the Wi-Spy. It's only GBP100 and picks up any signals in the 2.4GHz spectrum. Easy interference spotting, then. However, lack of 5GHz compatibility could limit its usefulness.
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