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Intel Launches Wi-Fi 6 AX200 Wireless Network Adapter
Intel has quietly launched its first Wi-Fi 6 (802.11ax) wireless network adapter, codenamed Cyclone Peak. The new WLAN adapter will deliver up to 2.4 Gbps network throughput when used with a compatible access point, but, like Wi-Fi 6 in general, its main advantage is that it will work better than existing adapters in RF-noisy environments where multiple Wi-Fi networks co-exist.
The Intel Wi-Fi 6 AX200 is a CNVi WLAN card that supports 802.11ax via 2x2 MU-MIMO antennas over the 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz bands. And never found too far from a Wi-Fi card, Intel's AX200 also supports Bluetooth 5.0.
[...] Intel's web-site says that the first Cyclone Peak wireless network adapter has been launched, so the device is available to makers of PCs. Depending on the order, the Intel Wi-Fi 6 AX200 costs Intel's customers from $10 to $17.
One of the commenters linked to this paper about 802.11be, a generation of Extremely High Throughput (EHT) Wi-Fi technology beyond 802.11ax that could offer a maximum throughput of at least 30 Gbps.
Previously: Netgear Introduces its First Wi-Fi 6 (802.11ax) Routers
Related: Wi-Fi Alliance Rebrands Wi-Fi Standards
Qualcomm Announces 802.11ay Wi-Fi Chips that Can Transmit 10 Gbps Within Line-of-Sight
Intel Promises "10nm" Chips by the End of 2019, and More
(Score: 3, Informative) by ikanreed on Friday April 05 2019, @07:55PM (5 children)
The fact that my neighbors all have ultra-strong antennae broadcasting on every fucking channel crowding out my own signal in my own home. There's too many wifi routers at too high a broadcast power, using too much of the shared spectrum.
They name their stupid dumbass wastes of bandwith "AT&T-fast" and how do they make it fast? BY FUCKING TRAMPLING ALL OVER SHARED BANDS.
Tragedy of the fucking commons.
(Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 05 2019, @08:04PM (1 child)
Reed TFS:
(Score: 2) by ikanreed on Friday April 05 2019, @08:15PM
I guess I missed that line. Sorry.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 05 2019, @08:18PM
Solution: social engineer your way inside, get the passwords off their AP, and change their settings. Or just stop paying for internet and use theirs.
Seriously though, is your AP 802.11ac? The available 5GHz bands should be more than enough for all of you, and your APs should automatically avoid collisions by detecting and avoiding in-use bands. The situation you're describing just shouldn't happen unless you're in an incredibly dense apartment complex or everyone is running g/n class hardware.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 06 2019, @01:14AM (1 child)
For quite some time they've been focusing on range, but many of us live in apartments where we would be better off with lower power devices that would be subject to interference from fewer devices. Even at my parents house, I see a ridiculous number of access points.
(Score: 2) by takyon on Saturday April 06 2019, @11:01AM
Well, as we start talking about using bands near 60 GHz or more, the shorter range you crave will be realized.
Getting 8 or more antennae on a router could also help.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 05 2019, @08:01PM (2 children)
2.4 Gbits in lab condition. Probably 80 Mbits/s in real life, under ideal conditions (10 cm between transmitter and receiver)
(Score: 2) by bob_super on Friday April 05 2019, @10:26PM (1 child)
I've speedtested a .ac connection at over 400Mb/s. Next room, about 5m from the box.
Wired Gig-E to the same box yielded 500Mb/s down. About 20 Euros a month.
I'm jealous of my usually low-tech dad...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 05 2019, @11:22PM
It depends a lot on the wireless card in the end device - hockey end stuff has multiple antennas, lower end stuff will be 1x1.
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Friday April 05 2019, @08:33PM (2 children)
BYTE magazine, April 1980, page 115.
Three years later . . .
BYTE Magazine, 1983 January issue, page 468
Sometimes it is good to look back down the mountain and see how far we've come.
Some people need assistants to hire some assistance.
Other people need assistance to hire some assistants.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 05 2019, @08:38PM
My $100 laptop supports 802.11ac. Next one will hopefully have Bluetooth 5 so I can use longer range wireless headphones.
(Score: 5, Interesting) by Snotnose on Friday April 05 2019, @10:53PM
Ahhh, back in the day. circa '91/92, wrote an Ethernet driver for an Intel chip to be released RSN (we had advance knowledge). Wrote dummy code for the chip and got my driver working (this was not unusual back then). Chip arrives, serious lag issues in my code.
Chip had a feature, you could chain together packets to be sent. Once you built a chain you pointed the chip to the first packet and set a master bit to make the chip process that chain. Each packet had a pointer to the next packet, and a bit that said whether or not the next packet was ready to send. Turned out, if you made packet and/or chain, and set the main bit, it took a good half second for the chip to see it and start transmitting the thing. But if you set the packet bit saying the next packet wasn't ready to go, then flipped it, you were golden.
My solution? Every chain of packets had an empty packet at the end with the "next packet ready" flag set to "nope, not yet". When I had another bunch of packets ready to go I chained them up, set that mt packet's "next packet ready" flag to "yep, have at it", and off they went.
What made it silver was when the chip came out my solution was in the official errata (uncredited of course). What made it golden was in '94, when I found Linux, I dug into the Ethernet device driver code and yep, there was my solution to the problem. Uncredited of course.
Of course I'm against DEI. Donald, Eric, and Ivanka.