said by v_lestat 
:said by twizlar :The people that will really benefit from this are LARGE wireless networks. Where there are several hundred users on an access point at a time. This will dramatically increase the speeds available to the end user when in large WLAN environments.
I guarentee you 150% that there is no end user regular joe piece of hardware out there right now that will handle "several hundred users" who are all on at the same time. your not going to buy anything wireless from netgear that will handle that many people.
It nt a bandwidth limitation its a hardware limitation.
They can claim it can handle such-n-such users but i sell this stuff for a living every day (not this whimpy netgear or linksys stuff) and i guarentee you that these pieces of hardware will puke out you get that many people.
thruput starts backing down on many devies when you start getting a dozen or more users let alone a hundred or more.
these are designed for in your home with 3-4 users and thats all.
plus i'd love to see how far they actually got away from the AP to get those speeds.
and don't start in on the WiMax stuff either. It's not even been ratified yet and is still in its first stages of "stage 1" finalization. Infact today they are doing their stage 1.
And here in the USA we are fighting with the FCC to get the GHZ bands finalized and we are running into issues.
Also make note that Intel has backed out of all wimax products that are NOT licensed bands meaning anything that you can go buy and hook up- without an FCC license,, intel has said they wont make the chipsets for them. So hows that for intel strong arming yet again!
I beg to differ, I setup a 100 user wireless network at an office using a run of the mill netgear 54 Mbps wireless router. It's a financial company that has very heavy network usage to file servers, printers, etc. It works just fine, no problems at all.
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