Belkin has announced their new wireless routers which come in the form of N150, N300, N600 Dual-Band and N750 Dual-Band. The routers claim to incoporate MultiBeam technology that can deliver fast speeds and fuller coverage for PCs, tablets, smartphones, TVs, and gaming consoles.
VR-Zone was among the few that was granted with an exclusive preview of the upcoming high performance Broadcom powered dual-band 450Mbps wireless router from Asus. The Asus RT-N66U was first seen a while back in January during the last CES. Look inside for a quick tour.
As Wi-Fi is evolving we've now hit speeds of 450Mbps, but to date you've been pretty much limited to using notebooks with a select choice of mini PCI Express cards to be able to reach those kinds of speeds. Now it seems like the first 450Mbps USB dongles are starting to appear and although we've seen a product from Trendnet already, it's not as small and portable as the latest model from Japanese Logitec.
With the mostly disappointing AMD news today, we figured we'd post some more positive news, well, that is if you care at all about routers. Asus is getting ready to revamp its entire router product range and it seems like the company got really fond of its "Black Diamond" series design as we're looking at no less than five new models based on the same overall design. The best news of it all is that Asus is finally ready to launch the RT-N66U dual band router, but the design has changed quite a bit since it was first shown way back at CES in January.
Wireless routers are a dime a dozen these days, but we're quickly moving towards faster devices and 450Mbps routers seem to be the next common standard, the current limit of the Wi-Fi standard. TP-Link is now finally joining the part with its TL-WR2543ND, rather than the TL-WR2843ND which we spotted back at Computex in early June. It's the company's first dual-band router, but it has a slight drawback compared to the TL-WR2843ND.
Over the years we've seen a lot of peculiar bits of hardware launch, but Samsung's new SE-208BW optical drive with Wi-Fi interface is among the strangest we've ever seen. Samsung calls it the Smart Media Hub rather than an optical drive, as beyond being able to connect to a PC over Wi-Fi, it also works with tablets and smartphones.
The TEW-692GW is the first router to support 450Mbps speeds on both the 2.4GHz and 5GHz bands simultaneously. This router's raw horsepower redefines wireless networking as we know it, to easily stream HD videos throughout your home and much more.
Cisco Linksys has announced their new range of switches - 5-Port SE1500 Fast Ethernet switch, SE2500 5-Port Gigabit Ethernet Switch and SE2800 8-Port Gigabit Ethernet Switch - and AE1000 high performance wireless-N USB adapter for home office and entertainment use.
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Japanese NTT has demoed a prototype setup using the next generation 802.11ac standard which should bring us 1Gbit/s Wi-Fi. The demo was shown last week at an event called Wireless Technology Park in Yokohama City in Japan.
WiFi dongles are supposed to be used as tools for getting online via a wireless connection and not for putting them up as exhibits, right? Well, tell that to Planex; the company has just introduced a new line of collectable WiFi dongles based off popular Japanese anime characters, some of which are cute enough to probably make anybody reconsider actually connecting them to a PC at all.
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Back at Computex earlier this month Intel was demoing netbooks with WiDi or Wireless Display and Intel seems to call it interchangeably. One of the Intel representatives at the show told us that we could expect 720p video over WiDi from netbooks, but it appears that it might not be the case after all.
Apple's range of Time Capsule products might not be the most exciting products in its range, but for Apple users they're among the easiest ways to create a backup of important data. Apple has added additional storage space to its Time Capsule while the prices have remained the same, which sounds like a pretty decent deal to us.
You might be wondering what Wi-Fi Direct is and to put it in really simple terms, it does pretty much what Bluetooth does, just at Wi-Fi speeds. Ok, so it's not quite that simple, but at least it's the basic theory of how it works and Broadcom was showing off some really cool demoes at Computex of where it envisages we will see Wi-Fi Direct used.
Today, we head over to the Taipei International Convention Centre, which is home to the booths of what TAITRA calls its "stellar exhibitors". And first up on our list of stellar exhibitors to stake out is EDIMAX, which has quite a number of new networking products designed to make the wireless connectivity in digital living room more user friendly and accessible to end-users. Let's take a look at what they have to offer...
With high-speed wireless internet connectivity fast moving up the rungs from a luxury to a basic neccessity these days, it was only a matter of time before a company would attempt to one-up the industry by introducing the first known wireless communication device that boasts data transfer speeds capable of putting the existing 802.11n's rate to shame. Today, we had the chance to see that particular device, and it comes in the form of a certain half-height mini-PCIe card from AzureWave...
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