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    Any ETA for 802.11ac built-in?

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by msg617, Jun 26, 2012.

  1. msg617

    msg617 Newbie

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    Looking to move everything in the house to wireless laptops and NAS. The throughput of 802.11ac seems necessary to do this, especially for copying music down from the NAS, moving photos, etc.

    I know 802.11ac remains in draft, although there are routers available, but does anyone have a sense of when it might show up in a laptop? I'm not familiar with the history of 802.11n to know whether that's a useful comparison.
     
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  2. maverick1989

    maverick1989 Notebook Deity

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    According to this, not until 2014 would you see a card that you can buy with one of these radios. Maybe this can get you by until then?
     
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  3. Mr. Wonderful

    Mr. Wonderful Notebook Evangelist

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    We're going to start seeing routers pretty quick here with unfinalized-AC technologies.

    My question is, do will there be any advantage to using AC routers with N devices?
     
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  4. DEagleson

    DEagleson Gamer extraordinaire

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    Personally i would stay away from networking everything to ac draft.
    You never know if they will be fully working when the final product hit the market.

    Sent from my GT-I9100 using Tapatalk 2
     
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