| This makes me sick. ISPs advertising unlimited connections than capping is much worse than this. I think it is understood with wireless that speeds advertised are always the maximum. They are never the actual because of environmental factors. I don't see how some consumers being naive about the technology should result in winning a lawsuit like this. These companies weren't lying. So are we going to go after dsl customers that can't get the advertised speeds due to distance limits?
Maybe they will sue anyone making 802.11g products because you can never hit 54mbit throughput. Then everyone will get a refund and an industry will be destroyed. |
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| I mostly agree with you, except wifi speeds are advertised based on theoretical limits, not real world limits. No way no how, no matter what environmental factors you have just perfect, will you see 54Mbps out of an 802.11g setup.
I'm not saying they need to dumb it down to "here is what you'll get through 3 brick walls and a floor" speeds, but it should be limited to what a person sitting 6" from the router could actually see.
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Hopewell Junction, NY | said by Camelot One:I mostly agree with you, except wifi speeds are advertised based on theoretical limits, not real world limits. No way no how, no matter what environmental factors you have just perfect, will you see 54Mbps out of an 802.11g setup. I'm not saying they need to dumb it down to "here is what you'll get through 3 brick walls and a floor" speeds, but it should be limited to what a person sitting 6" from the router could actually see. even sitting 6" from the router you could have wildly variable speeds depending on your RF environment. |
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