http://news.softpedia.com Softpedia News - Wireless Softpedia News en-us 2001 - 2012 Softpedia. All rights reserved. Tue, 29 May 2012 05:37:18 GMT Tue, 29 May 2012 05:37:18 GMT News http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 10 http://news.softpedia.com/base_img/softpedia_logo.gif http://news.softpedia.com http://news.softpedia.com/news/Wireless-Transmissions-Break-Terahertz-Speed-Record-269907.shtml The people at Tokyo University, Japan, have done it again: they've broken a record, this time having to do with high-speed wireless communications.

A team from Tokyo University achieved 3 Gbps transfers over a 542GHz wireless connection, which falls under 300GHz-3THz, a band that is part of the terahertz spectrum.

T... (read more)]]> Wed, 16 May 2012 12:17:00 GMT Softpedia News - Wireless http://news.softpedia.com/news/Wireless-Transmissions-Break-Terahertz-Speed-Record-269907.shtml Wireless http://news.softpedia.com/news/Wireless-Transmissions-Break-Terahertz-Speed-Record-269907.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Sebastian Pop) http://news.softpedia.com/news/Netgear-s-1-300-Mbps-Wirless-Router-And-Sidekick-269799.shtml Last month, we reported on the impending arrival of the R6300 wireless router, one that was supposed to be the first ever 802.11ac wireless router, and now we can finally say it is up for sale.

We'll have to point out that Netgear failed to actually live up to its implied promise that the R6300 would be the first 802.11ac router on ... (read more)]]> Wed, 16 May 2012 07:58:00 GMT Softpedia News - Wireless http://news.softpedia.com/news/Netgear-s-1-300-Mbps-Wirless-Router-And-Sidekick-269799.shtml Wireless http://news.softpedia.com/news/Netgear-s-1-300-Mbps-Wirless-Router-And-Sidekick-269799.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Sebastian Pop) http://news.softpedia.com/news/World-s-Most-Powerful-and-Long-Range-Indoor-WiFi-Router-269558.shtml
The R20000G is a dual band router that is able to power two different networks: one in 2400 MHz and one in 5000 MHz frequency.

The company claims that its solution is able to succe... (read more)]]> Tue, 15 May 2012 08:56:00 GMT Softpedia News - Wireless http://news.softpedia.com/news/World-s-Most-Powerful-and-Long-Range-Indoor-WiFi-Router-269558.shtml Wireless http://news.softpedia.com/news/World-s-Most-Powerful-and-Long-Range-Indoor-WiFi-Router-269558.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Constantin Murariu) http://news.softpedia.com/news/MediaTek-Launches-Special-Wi-Fi-SoC-D-Link-Takes-It-Eagerly-267577.shtml MediaTek makes various connectivity chips and D-Link comes up with routers used in cloud environments, so the two decided to team up for once.

MediaTek has a certain Wi-Fi system-on-chip known as RT6856, based on a 700 MHz MIPS 34KEc CPU core.

It boasts dual PCI Express interfaces, which means that it can han... (read more)]]> Thu, 3 May 2012 12:20:00 GMT Softpedia News - Wireless http://news.softpedia.com/news/MediaTek-Launches-Special-Wi-Fi-SoC-D-Link-Takes-It-Eagerly-267577.shtml Wireless http://news.softpedia.com/news/MediaTek-Launches-Special-Wi-Fi-SoC-D-Link-Takes-It-Eagerly-267577.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Sebastian Pop) http://news.softpedia.com/news/Amped-Wireless-Outs-Wireless-N-USB-Adapters-266096.shtml PCs and Macs don't always have the best wireless support, so Amped Wireless took it upon itself to create a pair of USB 2.0 adapters that could make up for it.

Nowadays, mostly every PC has support for wireless networks and such, but the range is not all that impressive, usually.

Amped Wireless tried to address that issue wh... (read more)]]> Tue, 24 Apr 2012 14:31:01 GMT Softpedia News - Wireless http://news.softpedia.com/news/Amped-Wireless-Outs-Wireless-N-USB-Adapters-266096.shtml Wireless http://news.softpedia.com/news/Amped-Wireless-Outs-Wireless-N-USB-Adapters-266096.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Sebastian Pop) http://news.softpedia.com/news/Wireless-Internet-to-Remote-Locations-Improved-by-80-265912.shtml Nowadays, the world is trying to bring Internet access more or less everywhere, but there are remote locations where broadband doesn't work that well, or at all.

The means for bringing wireless network signals to mountains and such are called “multi-hop networks” and have a tight limit on how much data is transmitted... (read more)]]> Mon, 23 Apr 2012 11:32:00 GMT Softpedia News - Wireless http://news.softpedia.com/news/Wireless-Internet-to-Remote-Locations-Improved-by-80-265912.shtml Wireless http://news.softpedia.com/news/Wireless-Internet-to-Remote-Locations-Improved-by-80-265912.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Sebastian Pop) http://news.softpedia.com/news/MediaTek-Releases-Wi-Fi-Bluetooth-Combo-Chip-261994.shtml MediaTek has formally announced the MT7650, a wireless chip that combines the benefits of two distinct wireless communication technologies.

The new chip combines MAC/Baseband/Radio 802.11ac Wi-Fi with Bluetooth 4.0+HS all in a single chip.

No doubt this is a result of the resource merge of MediaTek and Ralink.

... (read more)]]> Fri, 30 Mar 2012 14:34:00 GMT Softpedia News - Wireless http://news.softpedia.com/news/MediaTek-Releases-Wi-Fi-Bluetooth-Combo-Chip-261994.shtml Wireless http://news.softpedia.com/news/MediaTek-Releases-Wi-Fi-Bluetooth-Combo-Chip-261994.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Sebastian Pop) http://news.softpedia.com/news/Clearwire-Announces-4G-Wireless-USB-Dongle-257712.shtml Clearwire has once again shown that a modem doesn't need to be all that big in order to give PCs complete access to the Internet via wireless broadband.

The company has created and announced the Clear Stick Atlas, a 4G USB dongle that does not need any sort of software to run.

In other words, as long as a device has an USB co... (read more)]]> Fri, 9 Mar 2012 12:49:00 GMT Softpedia News - Wireless http://news.softpedia.com/news/Clearwire-Announces-4G-Wireless-USB-Dongle-257712.shtml Wireless http://news.softpedia.com/news/Clearwire-Announces-4G-Wireless-USB-Dongle-257712.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Sebastian Pop) http://news.softpedia.com/news/Texas-Instruments-Reveals-WiLink-8-0-Wireless-Chips-252646.shtml Texas Instruments is one of the primary suppliers of chips that enable the sort of wireless connectivity all consumers have come to expect, and it looks like a new batch of such chips is ready to serve.

Antennas may be the product component responsible for projecting wireless electromagnetic waves, but they are just a tool in the e... (read more)]]> Tue, 14 Feb 2012 18:31:01 GMT Softpedia News - Wireless http://news.softpedia.com/news/Texas-Instruments-Reveals-WiLink-8-0-Wireless-Chips-252646.shtml Wireless http://news.softpedia.com/news/Texas-Instruments-Reveals-WiLink-8-0-Wireless-Chips-252646.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Sebastian Pop) http://news.softpedia.com/news/Mushroom-Launches-ThirdEye-Technology-that-Sends-Video-Over-Broadband-250808.shtml Mobile broadband isn't exactly known for its ability to transmit video in real time, but Mushroom Networks wants that to change with the ThirdEye.

Not too long ago mobile broadband wasn't exactly the medium of choice for people who wanted to access the Internet.

The wireless technology evolved, thou... (read more)]]> Mon, 6 Feb 2012 08:22:00 GMT Softpedia News - Wireless http://news.softpedia.com/news/Mushroom-Launches-ThirdEye-Technology-that-Sends-Video-Over-Broadband-250808.shtml Wireless http://news.softpedia.com/news/Mushroom-Launches-ThirdEye-Technology-that-Sends-Video-Over-Broadband-250808.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Sebastian Pop) http://news.softpedia.com/news/Clearwire-Intros-a-4G-Hotspot-and-a-4G-Modem-Router-Hybrid-249714.shtml Anyone wondering where they might find some means to set up wireless networks may want to look at Clearwire's product portfolio, especially the two latest products to leave its labs.

Clearwire has just announced the availability of the CLEAR Spot Voyager personal hotspot and the CLEAR Hub Express 4G modem/ wireless router.... (read more)]]> Tue, 31 Jan 2012 12:48:00 GMT Softpedia News - Wireless http://news.softpedia.com/news/Clearwire-Intros-a-4G-Hotspot-and-a-4G-Modem-Router-Hybrid-249714.shtml Wireless http://news.softpedia.com/news/Clearwire-Intros-a-4G-Hotspot-and-a-4G-Modem-Router-Hybrid-249714.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Sebastian Pop) http://news.softpedia.com/news/Super-Wi-Fi-Deployed-at-Last-May-or-May-Not-Spread-249119.shtml It appears that, soon enough, there may be a whole new wireless connectivity solution ready to serve, even though it is really just a variation of what exists already.

The first “Super Wi-Fi” network, running on the bare “white space”, has finally been deployed, in Wilmington, North Carolina, USA.
read more)]]> Fri, 27 Jan 2012 12:52:00 GMT Softpedia News - Wireless http://news.softpedia.com/news/Super-Wi-Fi-Deployed-at-Last-May-or-May-Not-Spread-249119.shtml Wireless http://news.softpedia.com/news/Super-Wi-Fi-Deployed-at-Last-May-or-May-Not-Spread-249119.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Sebastian Pop) http://news.softpedia.com/news/Buffalo-802-11ac-Wireless-Router-Reaches-1300Mbps-Transfer-Speeds-247126.shtml The next-generation IEEE 802.11ac wireless networking standard isn’t expected to be complete until the end of the year, but this hasn’t stopped Buffalo from announcing the AirStation WZR-1750H router which will support this technology.

According to Buffalo, its upcoming AirStation router is built around a c... (read more)]]> Wed, 18 Jan 2012 09:47:00 GMT Softpedia News - Wireless http://news.softpedia.com/news/Buffalo-802-11ac-Wireless-Router-Reaches-1300Mbps-Transfer-Speeds-247126.shtml Wireless http://news.softpedia.com/news/Buffalo-802-11ac-Wireless-Router-Reaches-1300Mbps-Transfer-Speeds-247126.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Sorin Nita) http://news.softpedia.com/news/TP-LINK-Intros-the-TL-WR702N-World-s-Smallest-Router-246975.shtml TP-LINK has recently uncovered a new range of networking products at this year’s CES 2012 fair, including the TL-WR702N router which the company touts as being the smallest device of this type released so far.

More compact than a credit card, the TL-WR702N supports speeds up to 150Mbps and was designed so that it gets its po... (read more)]]> Tue, 17 Jan 2012 13:51:00 GMT Softpedia News - Wireless http://news.softpedia.com/news/TP-LINK-Intros-the-TL-WR702N-World-s-Smallest-Router-246975.shtml Wireless http://news.softpedia.com/news/TP-LINK-Intros-the-TL-WR702N-World-s-Smallest-Router-246975.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Sorin Nita) http://news.softpedia.com/news/TRENDnet-Intros-1300-Mbps-Dual-Band-Wireless-AC-Router-and-Adapter-245226.shtml
TRENDnet is eager to show off its networking expertise, even if it won't actually let customers enjoy it any time soon.

Though the Dual Band Wireless AC Router and Adapter it made will both be on display, they will only start selling in late 2012.

When they do arrive, ... (read more)]]> Mon, 9 Jan 2012 20:51:01 GMT Softpedia News - Wireless http://news.softpedia.com/news/TRENDnet-Intros-1300-Mbps-Dual-Band-Wireless-AC-Router-and-Adapter-245226.shtml Wireless http://news.softpedia.com/news/TRENDnet-Intros-1300-Mbps-Dual-Band-Wireless-AC-Router-and-Adapter-245226.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Sebastian Pop) http://news.softpedia.com/news/Broadcom-Makes-Bluetooth-Device-Batteries-Run-for-10-years-238847.shtml If anything can put a dent in the appeal of a wireless peripheral, it is how they tend to run out of power at the worst moments, since it is always a bad moment when they are in use.

Broadcom means to make this problem go away through its latest invention.

What the company did was create a special Bluetooth ch... (read more)]]> Wed, 7 Dec 2011 21:41:02 GMT Softpedia News - Wireless http://news.softpedia.com/news/Broadcom-Makes-Bluetooth-Device-Batteries-Run-for-10-years-238847.shtml Wireless http://news.softpedia.com/news/Broadcom-Makes-Bluetooth-Device-Batteries-Run-for-10-years-238847.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Sebastian Pop) http://news.softpedia.com/news/Rohm-Chip-Pushes-Wireless-at-Massive-30-Gbps-235991.shtml
Like with any great milestone, there are good news and bad news.

The bad news is that the new chip that Rohm invented will not enter mass production right away, not even close.

The good news is that the 1.5 Gigabit per second transfer rate that it... (read more)]]> Tue, 22 Nov 2011 17:01:02 GMT Softpedia News - Wireless http://news.softpedia.com/news/Rohm-Chip-Pushes-Wireless-at-Massive-30-Gbps-235991.shtml Wireless http://news.softpedia.com/news/Rohm-Chip-Pushes-Wireless-at-Massive-30-Gbps-235991.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Sebastian Pop) http://news.softpedia.com/news/DLNA-Devices-Stream-Directly-No-Network-Needed-235082.shtml Even the most convenient technologies have their limitations and, apparently, one of the ones DLNA had to wrestle with has been overcome.

The Digital Living Network Alliance announced that it had added Wi-Fi Direct to its interoperability guidelines.

The name of the certification should be enough to suggest what it does.<... (read more)]]> Thu, 17 Nov 2011 08:23:00 GMT Softpedia News - Wireless http://news.softpedia.com/news/DLNA-Devices-Stream-Directly-No-Network-Needed-235082.shtml Wireless http://news.softpedia.com/news/DLNA-Devices-Stream-Directly-No-Network-Needed-235082.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Sebastian Pop) http://news.softpedia.com/news/ASUS-RT-N53-Black-Diamond-Series-Router-Debuts-233675.shtml Dual-band routers are just getting started off, or at least have been for a while but not at a very rapid pace, and ASUS just revealed its newest such invention.

RT-N53 is the latest product from the Black Diamonds series that ASUS has created.

It may not be selling yet, but the company did set it up for pre-order, both ... (read more)]]> Thu, 10 Nov 2011 12:37:00 GMT Softpedia News - Wireless http://news.softpedia.com/news/ASUS-RT-N53-Black-Diamond-Series-Router-Debuts-233675.shtml Wireless http://news.softpedia.com/news/ASUS-RT-N53-Black-Diamond-Series-Router-Debuts-233675.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Sebastian Pop) http://news.softpedia.com/news/Public-WiFi-Will-Be-Four-Times-as-Widespread-in-2015-233495.shtml The Wireless Broadband Alliance (WBA) hasn't been slacking off and, instead, conducted some research into what will happen to the worldwide WiFi coverage over the course of what remains of this first half of the second decade of the third millennium.

WiFi is getting support on pretty much every PC nowadays, especially laptops, so ... (read more)]]> Wed, 9 Nov 2011 16:02:00 GMT Softpedia News - Wireless http://news.softpedia.com/news/Public-WiFi-Will-Be-Four-Times-as-Widespread-in-2015-233495.shtml Wireless http://news.softpedia.com/news/Public-WiFi-Will-Be-Four-Times-as-Widespread-in-2015-233495.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Sebastian Pop) http://news.softpedia.com/news/Belkin-Launches-New-Wireless-Routers-230704.shtml The wireless router market really is expanding, what with so many companies launching one or more such things at once, like Belkin just did.

Belkin introduced the N750 DB, N600 DB, N300 and N150 routers, which can perform data backup automatically (via an app), though their main asset is the wireless speed of 150 Mbps to 750 Mbps.

... (read more)]]> Fri, 28 Oct 2011 09:10:00 GMT Softpedia News - Wireless http://news.softpedia.com/news/Belkin-Launches-New-Wireless-Routers-230704.shtml Wireless http://news.softpedia.com/news/Belkin-Launches-New-Wireless-Routers-230704.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Sebastian Pop) http://news.softpedia.com/news/TRENDnet-s-New-4-Port-Wireless-Bridge-Works-at-450Mbps-230683.shtml Continuing on its tradition on being the first player in the networking market to introduce new high-speed wireless devices, TRENDnet has announced a new 4-port media bridge, designed to connect your Ethernet-ready gaming console, network television or receiver to the web without requiring any wires to be set around your home.

T... (read more)]]> Fri, 28 Oct 2011 08:39:00 GMT Softpedia News - Wireless http://news.softpedia.com/news/TRENDnet-s-New-4-Port-Wireless-Bridge-Works-at-450Mbps-230683.shtml Wireless http://news.softpedia.com/news/TRENDnet-s-New-4-Port-Wireless-Bridge-Works-at-450Mbps-230683.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Sorin Nita) http://news.softpedia.com/news/ZyXEL-Goes-Minimum-With-MWT102-Portable-Router-230188.shtml ZyXEL released routers before, but none were as small and yet still so versatile as the new MWR102, whose product photos definitely don't really suggest it is as small as they say.

New tech devices usually try to be small or wireless, with both these traits sometimes combined.

ZyXEL may have just set a new standard as far... (read more)]]> Wed, 26 Oct 2011 12:45:00 GMT Softpedia News - Wireless http://news.softpedia.com/news/ZyXEL-Goes-Minimum-With-MWT102-Portable-Router-230188.shtml Wireless http://news.softpedia.com/news/ZyXEL-Goes-Minimum-With-MWT102-Portable-Router-230188.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Sebastian Pop) http://news.softpedia.com/news/As-60-GHz-Wireless-Networking-Approaches-Plugfest-Begins-229918.shtml One would think wireless connections of today are fast, but they are nothing compared to what the WiGig Alliance is testing out during the world’s first WiGig technology plugfest.

The WiGi Alliance, short for Wireless Gigabit Alliance, has come together to celebrate the release of the WiGig’s certification-ready ... (read more)]]> Tue, 25 Oct 2011 13:54:00 GMT Softpedia News - Wireless http://news.softpedia.com/news/As-60-GHz-Wireless-Networking-Approaches-Plugfest-Begins-229918.shtml Wireless http://news.softpedia.com/news/As-60-GHz-Wireless-Networking-Approaches-Plugfest-Begins-229918.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Sebastian Pop) http://news.softpedia.com/news/2013-Will-See-80-Million-LTE-Connections-229359.shtml As the year 2011 is drawing to a close, analysts are looking ahead to see what each segment of IT will bring, and ABI Research expects some interesting things on the LTE field.

Long Term Evolution (LTE) is the next step in wireless broadband, providing wider bandwidth than what is available today, both on the enterprise and consumer segments.... (read more)]]> Sat, 22 Oct 2011 09:49:00 GMT Softpedia News - Wireless http://news.softpedia.com/news/2013-Will-See-80-Million-LTE-Connections-229359.shtml Wireless http://news.softpedia.com/news/2013-Will-See-80-Million-LTE-Connections-229359.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Sebastian Pop) http://news.softpedia.com/news/The-Dark-Knight-Goes-Wireless-Thanks-to-ASUS-228553.shtml Aiming (or not) to build on the hype of a certain name, ASUS brought out, or will bring out at some point, a wireless router whose full moniker is RT-N66U Dual-Band Router.

Consumer routers might not have been overly newsworthy until about a year ago, but with wireless connections getting so widespread, this is no longer the case.
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Wireless electronic devices meant to broadcast voices over short to great d... (read more)]]> Thu, 6 Oct 2011 09:28:00 GMT Softpedia News - Wireless http://news.softpedia.com/news/HIOD-One-Bluetooth-Communicator-Lets-Cyclists-Speak-Casually-225896.shtml Wireless http://news.softpedia.com/news/HIOD-One-Bluetooth-Communicator-Lets-Cyclists-Speak-Casually-225896.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Sebastian Pop) http://news.softpedia.com/news/TP-Link-Debuts-on-Dual-Band-Router-Market-224226.shtml TP-Link may not have given its dual-band router everything users may hope for, but it did, nonetheless, make its debut in this small IT field, and arguably did so in style.

Nowadays, the most popular wireless technologies are the 2.4 GHz and the 5 GHz bands.

The main problem that wireless devices run into is that they some... (read more)]]> Wed, 28 Sep 2011 12:03:00 GMT Softpedia News - Wireless http://news.softpedia.com/news/TP-Link-Debuts-on-Dual-Band-Router-Market-224226.shtml Wireless http://news.softpedia.com/news/TP-Link-Debuts-on-Dual-Band-Router-Market-224226.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Sebastian Pop) http://news.softpedia.com/news/Use-iPads-and-iPhones-as-Remote-Controls-with-Logitech-Harmony-Link-222535.shtml Logitech completed its latest accessory for Apple's products, one that is meant as a sort of linking device between one's TV and an iOS-loaded electronic, like iPhones or iPads.

The Logitech Harmony Link is the newest gadget to leave the company's labs and head towards Apple's camp.

Though the lat... (read more)]]> Tue, 20 Sep 2011 09:25:00 GMT Softpedia News - Wireless http://news.softpedia.com/news/Use-iPads-and-iPhones-as-Remote-Controls-with-Logitech-Harmony-Link-222535.shtml Wireless http://news.softpedia.com/news/Use-iPads-and-iPhones-as-Remote-Controls-with-Logitech-Harmony-Link-222535.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Sebastian Pop) http://news.softpedia.com/news/Netgear-Router-Works-at-900-Mbps-Described-as-Most-Advanced-221703.shtml Netgear decided to enforce its status as provider of very high-end wireless networking solutions by creating an item capable of rivaling a certain something that TRENDnet delivered about two months ago.

By now, it will have become obvious that the worldwide IT industry is moving into an age of less cable clutter.
... (read more)]]> Wed, 14 Sep 2011 13:22:00 GMT Softpedia News - Wireless http://news.softpedia.com/news/Netgear-Router-Works-at-900-Mbps-Described-as-Most-Advanced-221703.shtml Wireless http://news.softpedia.com/news/Netgear-Router-Works-at-900-Mbps-Described-as-Most-Advanced-221703.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Sebastian Pop)