Metalink plans wireless chipset with 240 Mbps throughput
By Marc Perton 
posted June 29th 2005 5:30AM
posted June 29th 2005 5:30AM
Chipset developer Metalink has announced what the company says
is an 802.11n-compliant chipset that can achieve speeds of 240 Mbps (of course, since 802.11n technically isn't a
standard yet, it's not really compliant). Metalink is marketing the chipset to the home-video industry,
including makers of HDTV sets and DVRs. With any luck, we'll see some real streaming video equipment based on this
sometime next year.
you dont need 240 Mbps or what ever the new "n" standard for HDTV. all you really need it about 30 Mbps for 1080p. The "n" standard will be over kill what what do we really need 240 Mbps for anyways most Dsl connections are only 1.5 to 6 Mbps.
You're right, you dont need 240mbps to connect to your broadband connection. You do need 240mbps to show off to other people. You need 240mbps to have a wireless lan party, you need 240mbps to stream hdtv... (Streaming sdtv on my wired network sucks down between 5-7MBps) The 240mbps quoted here is MegaBits/sec, so.... 240/8 = 30MBps. So, you do in fact need this for wireless HD streams. And thats not counting the TCP/IP overhead and wireless signal overhead (error correction, etc)
Basically, faster is better, weather or not you need it.