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You want cheap Wi-Fi? "You'll get what you pay for," warns Selina Lo. "Wi-Fi makers are in denial. The system doesn't work properly, and will get worse." Thank God, she says happily, "for manufacturers like us!" No, overweening modesty isn't her major personality flaw. And as CEO of Ruckus Wireless, her third start-up …

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  1. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    Where can I buy one?

    The antennae array sounds like a really good solution. I have lost count of the number of hours I have spent fiddling with antennas to get a good signal, it can make the difference between no connection and perfect connection.

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  2. Ed

    Well, sounds good, but...

    I regularly (nightly) stream recorded TV (MPEG4) over WIFI through three floors of a Central London terraced house, without any issues.

    Maybe I'm just lucky :)

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  3. Alistair

    Radio systems engineering

    The traditional approach to radio systems engineering attempts to maximize the use of the radio spectrum, because it is a finite, limited resource that has to be shared effectively by all users.

    As the density of WiFi networks increases in an area, they increasingly interfere with one another. Eventually they will all become useless.

    The solution to piping television around your house is to use wires - either traditional co-ax carrying base-band analogue or RF signals, or twisted-pair carrying IP network packets. Neither of these will deteriorate because of your neighbors competing for use of the same radio spectrum.

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  4. Martin Owens

    Don't you just

    Hate it when those socialists are right for a change? I mean it's not like you can't get a wifi mesh set up the problem is security on such networks.

    Although saying that, I'm starting to believe WiFi is a bad idea and we should have never eft the oceans.

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