Need a Faster Router?

Dave Bateman — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 16:06:43 +0000

If you find yourself transferring large files between devices over your wireless network and feel it just takes too long, you might want to checkout Netgear’s newest router when it comes out next month. They claim that you could see speeds of 1GB. That’s fast – so fast I am not really sure why I would need it. Currently I am transferring data at my home at around 54MB. I don’t feel I am waiting too long for anything, but I am sure there are those out there that will feel they just have to have one.

Netgear R6300

For those of you that do find the need for that kind of speed, the device you will be looking for is called a R6300. It is based on the 802.11ac technology, so in order to get those kinds of speed your other devices will need to be 802.11ac as well. Currently that is going to be a little hard to do since it officially isn’t even a standard yet. That should occur later this year, but that doesn’t seem to be stopping some companies from adopting it. It has been rumored that Apple may support this technology in its airport products later this year.

So, if you need to be on the bleeding edge and have the fastest, you should get ready to order the Netgear R6300 next month. By the way, it will set you back about 200 bucks.

It’s a Bird, It’s a Plane, Nope it’s Just a Cisco Router.

Dave Bateman — Mon, 20 Dec 2010 03:25:41 +0000

The next time you look up in sky and see something that you just can’t figure out what it is, you might be looking at a Cisco router. OK, it’s highly unlikely that you will actually be able to see a Cisco router in the sky, but that doesn’t mean there isn’t one there. As a matter of fact, there is. It’s up there in the Intelsat 14 communications satellite that has been in space for about a year now.

It is called the IRIS (Internet Routing in Space) router and is reportedly the first such device in space. So, aside from the fact that it is a router and it’s in space, which is pretty cool, what is its purpose? Cisco has been conducting a number of tests and the one I find most interesting is a feature called “Dial Tone From Space.” It sounds like they had Communication Manager Express (CME) running on the router and placed a call using it. I guess I could take issue with the fact that the dial tone wasn’t really coming from space since CME does not send dial tone, but rather tells the phone to play dial tone. But why throw stones at something so cool?

So, why should we terrestrial beings really care about what Cisco is doing in space? Here’s why. During any kind of natural or man made disaster one of the most important things that need to be restored as soon as possible is communications. It takes time to run cable or put up cell towers. But what if there was a phone system ready for use spinning around up in the air completely undisturbed? It is possible that communications could be restored in a matter of hours instead of days or weeks. This is just one example of the type of impact the IRIS program could have. Who knows, maybe someday this blog will be hosted on some satellite. It could happen.

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Need a Faster Router?

It’s a Bird, It’s a Plane, Nope it’s Just a Cisco Router.