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the days of picking up the receiver and hearing the Banshee scream of

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56k followed immediately by the four

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laoren whales of whoever was in the middle of an hours long anime music

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video download are over and the latest Wireless standards are better than ever

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claiming to be as fast as running a

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physical wire but is Wireless ad any

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good I mean AD can you believe this have

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you heard about this ads in our Wi-Fi

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how dare they I mean well okay hold on a second they do pay the bills around here

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so tell you what why don't you watch an

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ad and see if it's that bad before you make up your

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mind cooler Master's 25th anniversary

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edition Cosmos 2 features a unique dual

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curved tempered glass side panel check it out now at the link

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below let's start this by saying that 802.11 ad is not just a new revision of

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an existing standard like AC Wave 2 was

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you can learn more about that one here it's actually something new entirely you

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see Wi-Fi to date has traditionally used

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two major frequencies 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz

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what Wireless ad brings to the table is a new frequency 60 GHz and along with it

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speeds of up to 4.6 gabit per second and

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you might even see advertised speeds of up to 7.2 gbit per second although that

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isn't a new trick from Big Wi-Fi and if

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you read the fine print you'll see they're just combining the ad speeds

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with the other two frequencies well gee that sounds great lus but isn't 5 GHz

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already pretty difficult to use through walls wouldn't 60 GHz be even worse yes

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yes it would the higher the frequency of

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the radio wave the harder it is for it to penetrate a non-conductive solid like

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a wall or a person so at a wavelength of

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only 0.5 CM 60 GHz is likely to be

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absorbed or reflected by basically

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anything even very small obstacles but

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enough High School science it's summer and you've got better things to do right

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like watching us give you these juicy performance numbers from the Netgear

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r9000 Nighthawk X10 and tplink Talon

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ad7200 so we fired up I perf using a

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script we wrote In order to launch four simultaneous instances and record the

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output into easily digestible CSV files

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testing both routers and our test laptop

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with 2.4 5 and 60 GHz it should be noted

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that because this is an investigation into 802.11 ad performance and not uh a

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router Roundup we are focusing on single

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client performance starting with 2.4 GHz

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we can see that we're really struggling to maintain a stable speed each of the

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four ier streams is competing with each other for bandwidth 5 GHz on the other

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hand was nice nice and clean about what

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you'd expect from a wired connection albeit a slower one 60

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GHz screaming fast as advertised but we

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did note quite a bit of variation between our streams and our Netgear test

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chart here perfectly demonstrates something that wasn't advertised that we

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will get to momentarily comparing the averages both of our routers were more

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or less on par with each each other in every spectrum and moving on to our file

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copy tests we found more predictable results 802.11 ad gives a significant

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realworld boost in speed over the 5 GHz

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and 2.4 GHz BS similar in fact two wired

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speeds cool but where we depart from The

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Wire is in Signal Integrity as part of

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our testing we tried to see how far we

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could go before are losing out on our

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big speed upgrade and for this we had to

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venture into the dreaded Realm of the

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outside world so then to test range we set up

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our Netgear Nighthawk on our brand new picnic table fired up I perf and started

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walking after an arduous

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63.5 ft Trek the 60 GHz signal dropped

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altogether rip signal 5 GHz and 2.4 G

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GHz were still going strong with Connection rates of 866 and 300 megabit

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per second respectively the TP-Link Talon same deal picnic table I perf

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walking and just before we keeled over from exhaustion at 90 ft well we didn't

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drop the signal but we might as well have because performance wasn't much

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better on 60 GHz than it was on 2.4 but

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I mean that's not too bad my house is less than 60 ft across one small problem

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though it has stuff in it so let's simulate then stuff in the way we used

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the Netgear router box as our first obstruction before we add it wait what

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are you serious the Box caused the 60

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GHz signal to drop out all it has in it

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is cardboard and paper as for the TP

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Link oh okay here we get a better result

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latency increased a little bit but otherwise it was still still connected

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okay then how about a computer monitor again the net gear dropped out and the

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TP-Link kept on trucking okay how about

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just turning your back to the router okay here we go this is where both

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routers failed this much sexy human body

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is just too much for our poor 60 GHz

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signal so then TPL link wins thanks to its array of eight freaking antennas

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right wrong let's take the fight back indoors in my office netgear's

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obstruction avoidance strategy of bouncing Wi-Fi signals around allowed it

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to go from struggling to penetrate a folded up tablecloth to delivering solid

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performance to a client directly behind

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my monitor so ad Wireless then there are

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some obvious early adopter hassles like

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limited availability of compatible clients and high costs and piling on top

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of that there are some less obvious hassles like probably needing to run a

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cable to the middle of your ceiling to get your access point line of sight to

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everyone in the room but in certain applications we definitely see the

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potential here and I am pretty stoked to see like home Mesh networking Solutions

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based on this Tech as an alternative finally to this kind of nonsense but as

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for whether you're ready for a wireless ad router to today well I think it's

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