Today, Linksys, a division of Belkin Electronics, released the first commercially available 802.11ac Wave 2 Multi-User MIMO router, the EA8500. Now, you might ask, "So what? 802.11ac has been around ...

Sure, in a lab you can't already get 1 Gbps speeds. But most of us don't work in labs. We work in the real world. The best performance I've ever seen using my Linksys EA9200 tri-band router with a ...

Although vendor-written, this contributed piece does not advocate a position that is particular to the author’s employer and has been edited and approved by Network World editors. Why can’t connecting ...

Yes, you should use a frame 802.2. A packet header in an 802.2 contains additional information to help with routing the packet to its correct destination. Novell realized this issue several years ago ...

In the IEEE standards camp, an 802.11e spec is being developed as an extension to the current 11M bit/sec 802.11b (2.4-GHz) wireless LAN standard to provide missing QoS and security provisions.