http://tidbits.com/ Apple’s Phil Schiller said repeatedly during its iPad event that the fourth-generation iPad and iPad mini had Wi-Fi that was twice as fast as the preceding models. Not so fast, Phil. en-us Copyright 2012 TidBITS Publishing Inc. Sun, 28 Oct 2012 00:00:00 EDT Sun, 28 Oct 2012 00:00:00 EDT editors@tidbits.com (TidBITS Editors) editors@tidbits.com (TidBITS Editors) http://tidbits.com/images/tb_logo_152x55.png http://tidbits.com/ 55 152 TidBITS badge http://db.tidbits.com/article/13353?rss#comments_16354 Sun, 28 Oct 2012 20:04:00 EDT http://tidbits.com/article/13353#comments_16354 http://db.tidbits.com/article/13353?rss#comments_16308 Thu, 25 Oct 2012 15:05:27 EDT http://tidbits.com/article/13353#comments_16308
You can tell that a device has MIMO in 802.11n by the numbers. The AirPort Extreme, even the first 2007 model, shows up to 150 Mbps in 2.4 GHz (two 75 Mbps radio streams) and 300 Mbps in 5 GHz (two radio streams at up to double the channel width for 150 Mbps per channel). Newer Extreme and Time Capsules are 3x3x3 and are shown as up to 450 Mbps in 5 GHz.

You can also visit http://www.wi-fi.org/wi-fi-certified%E2%84%A2-products where you can look up Apple products and see the details of each certification.]]> http://db.tidbits.com/article/13353?rss#comments_16307 Thu, 25 Oct 2012 14:52:47 EDT http://tidbits.com/article/13353#comments_16307 How do we know we have it, if we have it, on Macs and AirPort Extremes?]]> http://db.tidbits.com/article/13353?rss#comments_16306 Thu, 25 Oct 2012 11:57:57 EDT http://tidbits.com/article/13353#comments_16306
In any case, Apple almost certainly would put out a base station update (which I guess for Feb. 2013) before it would widely update its hardware. The iOS devices have always lagged Macs with the latest Wi-Fi. The current iOS state of the art is substantially behind the adapters in Macs, for instance.]]> http://db.tidbits.com/article/13353?rss#comments_16304 Thu, 25 Oct 2012 11:43:29 EDT http://tidbits.com/article/13353#comments_16304