Wee-Fi: Enterprise 802.11n Rated; Au. U Illegal Use-Fi; Micro-Fi: Shorts on Cities

Enterprise 802.11n gear has up to 10 times throughput of previous generation: Network World put four equipment makers’ enterprise 802.11n gear through its paces, and found enormous improvements over 802.11g. However, as I’ve seen repeatedly with consumer-grade gear, maximum throughput is limited by internal system resources, like the system bus. 802.11n offers such a vastly higher rate of speed that firms and their engineers clearly need to move up yet another notch in designing equipment that can take full advantage. Network World examined Aerohive, Bluesocket, Motorola, and Siemens access points. Aruba, Cisco, and Trapeze declined in various ways to participate, which is a shame.

University of North South Wales shocked—shocked!—to find illegal downloads occurring: This Australian university may turn off its free Wi-Fi because students are acting like students, downloading what the IT director calls illegal content. The university fines students up to A$1000 for illegal downloads.

Micro-Fi round-up:Hillsboro, Ore., gains Wi-Fi through effort of local resident with Meraki boxes; Birmingham (UK) has extremely limited free-Fi, choosing to have residents, visitors pay for access via BT, criticized by Flickr’s visiting community manager; Niagara Falls gets 12 square blocks of free wireless; Portsmouth, NH, accepts $350K in Cisco gear for downtown service with few strings attached.

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