ABI Research's Jake Saunders, VP and practice director of forecasting, is reporting that while "802.11n device shipments still dominate the market, accounting for more than two thirds of total device ...

The first 802.11ac router, based on Draft 2.0 silicon from Broadcom, appeared in the first quarter of 2012, and it's taken a while for other vendors to release their first products. The ratification ...

Gigabit-speed wireless LAN equipment that uses the emerging IEEE 802.11ac standard is about to hit the market, with Netgear saying on Thursday that it will start shipping a consumer 802.11ac router in ...

Broadcom introduces first family of IEEE 802.11ac chips based on the 5th generation of Wi-Fi (5G WiFi) 5G WiFi improves wireless range in the home, allowing consumers to watch HD-quality video from ...

The industry is well into the 802.11ac Wave 1 cycle now, with almost every vendor having product available. Now is the time many of us industry watchers start looking ahead at what’s next and for ...

I picked up a new 2013 MacBook Air and an updated Time Capsule with 802.11ac. My network speeds were barely better than 802.11n which I chalked up to the OS X issues: In my setup, Network Utility ...

The first gigabit speed 802.11ac ICs allow consumers to load web content on a mobile device or home wireless network 3x faster. The BCM4360, BCM4352, BCM43526 and BCM43516 chips are also said to be 6x ...

The standard offers theoretical speeds ranging from 6.5 Mbps to 866.7 Mbps. There is always another standard coming. This one focused on high throughput wireless networks. It is the IEEE standard ...

Asus already makes one of the best routers in the land with the face-melting RT-AC68U, but the company’s not going soft just because it’s in the lead today. At Computex 2014, Asus announced the ...

Wireless standards tend to get proposed, drafted, and finally accepted at what seems like a glacial pace. It's been roughly 17 years since we began to see the first 802.11b wireless routers and ...

Gigabit-speed wireless LAN equipment that uses the emerging IEEE 802.11ac standard is about to hit the market, with Netgear saying on Thursday that it will start shipping a consumer 802.11ac router in ...