{"id":97168,"date":"2016-06-30T07:56:31","date_gmt":"2016-06-30T05:56:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=97168"},"modified":"2016-06-30T07:57:05","modified_gmt":"2016-06-30T05:57:05","slug":"new-wi-fi-standard-triples-current-connection-speeds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/broadband\/97168-new-wi-fi-standard-triples-current-connection-speeds","title":{"rendered":"New Wi-Fi standard triples current connection speeds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Wi-Fi Alliance standards body has added new features to its 802.11ac specification that promise up to three times the speed of existing Wi-Fi devices, reports <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.itnews.com.au\/news\/new-wi-fi-standard-triples-connectivity-speeds-429937\" target=\"_blank\">itnews<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The new specification, Wi-Fi Certified ac, introduces wider channel ranges (up to 160 MHz), which equates to <strong>double the spectrum<\/strong> today&#8217;s 802.11ac devices use.<\/p>\n<p>In addition,<strong>\u00a0more channels<\/strong> in the 5 GHz spectrum (which is less congested than the more popular 2.4 GHz) and a fourth <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.techopedia.com\/definition\/28375\/spatial-streaming\" target=\"_blank\">spatial stream<\/a><\/strong> have been added.<\/p>\n<p>The new standard also includes Multi-User Multiple Input Multiple Output (MU-MIMO), which <strong>allows more devices to connect<\/strong> to the Wi-Fi access point and send and receive simultaneously for better throughput.<\/p>\n<p>The first products from Broadcom, Marvell, MediaTek, Qualcomm and Quantenna featuring the new standards will release in the next couple of months.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More gaming news<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Where to buy the AMD Radeon RX 480 \u2013 South African prices revealed\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/hardware\/97090-where-to-buy-the-amd-radeon-rx-480-south-african-prices-revealed.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Where to buy the AMD Radeon RX 480 \u2013 South African prices revealed<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Pirates may have broken through \u2018un-crackable\u2019 Denuvo DRM\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/97096-pirates-may-have-broken-through-un-crackable-denuvo-drm.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Pirates may have broken through \u2018un-crackable\u2019 Denuvo DRM<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to The worst marketing ideas in videogame history\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/96217-the-worst-marketing-ideas-in-videogame-history.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">The worst marketing ideas in videogame history<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Wi-Fi features could triple current connection speeds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":234,"featured_media":97170,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8812],"tags":[31,15041,19974,15699],"class_list":["post-97168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-broadband","tag-active","tag-connectivity","tag-standard","tag-wi-fi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/234"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97168"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97168\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":97172,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97168\/revisions\/97172"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/97170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}