"New WiFi protocol boosts congested wireless network throughput by 700%"

[Solitude]

Saw this on reddit. Im pretty clueless as far as wifi goes... Will this help at all with my home wireless network if all im doing is skype/gaming/netflix/streaming something to my ps3?(sometimes simultaneously)

I guess what I mean is will I notice a difference?

700% increase in wifi throughput?

 

[p3n]

Its to stop congestion (with many devices on the same frequency) not increase throughput (to one device).

 

[Skripka]

OP, the only way you'd notice on your home network is if you often have craploads of devices on the same wireless AP.

 

[Ehren8879]

Sounds like it might implement a time division between when clients can talk during high congestion. I could be very wrong though since I know little about the wifi standard and since there's little info regarding the WiFox protocol at this time.

 

[JPF_]

Saw this on Digg. Was just about to post it....


Will be interesting to play with and see how well it works.

 

[Eickst]

We already use fair-based access on our Aruba system, noticed a huge increase on AP's with 10+ clients connected when one of them was a legacy client.