Digital Home Thoughts: Intel To Include Draft 802.11n In Centrino

"Intel announced at the Globalcom 2006 Expo that they will be including Draft 802.11n hardware in their Centrino chips. It will be interesting since they said that they will start doing this sometime in the middle of 2007, and the 802.11n standard is not to be finalized until 2008. Additionally Draft 802.11n has been dogged by interoperability problems." "Although the news caused barely a ripple of reaction in the audience of software and hardware engineers, there are industry analysts who have already warned large buyers of wireless technology to resist the temptation to deploy high-speed IEEE 802.11n devices until the standard is ratified.""

I have been using 802.11 Pre-N for a while now and I would just like to say that all my digital media based tasks have become so much more convenient. Having a close to 100 MBit wireless connection is absolutely great and the prospect of having this technology in every laptop is absolutely fantastic. I just hope that cable and/or other broadband companies will have the bandwidth to support the high speed connections from so many sources.