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January 3, 2005

Linksys Uses Airgo MIMO in New Product

By Glenn Fleishman

Linksys adds Airgo’s MIMO technology in their WRT54GX: The new product isn’t advertised as pre-802.11n, as Belkin’s version is, but it does claim it can achieve as much as three times the range and eight times the throughput. Belkin’s package of Airgo technology has gotten fairly positive reviews from many sources that like the performance that the router provides for non-MIMO cards. The one major exception is from David Haskin, editor-in-chief of Mobile Pipeline, who found erratic performance, especially in using the PC Card in non-pre-N environments. [link via Reuters]

In other MIMO news, Samsung and Athena Semiconductor said that they have an 802.11a/g compatible MIMO single chipset product. They expect speeds of up to 200 Mbps with their proprietary flavor that they’ll be demonstrating at CES this week.

Posted by Glennf at January 3, 2005 9:39 PM

Categories: 802.11n, Hardware, Home

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