Broadcom is officially shipping its previously announced Afterburner technology which ups the net throughput by 40 percent; previous raw data rate promoted as 125 Mbps is dropped: It's still the battle of the raw numbers, with Broadcom trying to top Atheros's 108 Mbps Super G with Turbo combination, but only by using the term "125" without tacking on the "Mbps." We'll have to wait for Tim Higgins of Tom's Networking to perform his usual exhaustive tests to tell us what the real throughput speeds are.
Broadcom reiterated its stand that Afterburner offers increased speed without sacrificing other nearby networks or devices, while pointing to work done by The Tolly Group that Broadcom says shows the Turbo mode in Atheros's Super G severely degrades nearby 802.11g networks.