This doesn't just let you create an ad-hoc network. It lets you create an ad-hoc network while you're still connected to a wireless network, so it's kinda like having two wireless adapters.
It's not an article, it's an ad. And it mentions the wireless network you create has to run on the same channel as the one you join! That's not terribly useful I don't think. It sounds like a modified version of WDS, and it'll cut your bandwidth way, way down as every packet has to be sent twice over the same channel if it passes through your virtual base station.
See, LS, this is why I laugh when you complain about advertisements on that other device. Seriously, this is an ad? If this is an ad, why are you not complaining in every single post here on Engadget for being a shill, advertising cameras, computers, MP3 players, etc? Why would you subject yourself to these horrible, brain altering, demeaning advertisements by coming to a place like Engadget when they are beaming their subliminal "buy me" messages directly into your brain?
I'm referring to the item at the link, not the engadget piece. it's not an article. An article is written by a journalist and pretends to be news. This is an ad. That's why it says "beta test now", and you have to click the button "FAQ" in the corner to see info. That's why it's hosted by the software maker. That's why it says "all sales are final" at the bottom.
As to the rest of your post, that chip on your shoulder must get damn heavy at times. Give it a rest some time. Why do I come to engadget and subject myself to ads? Hey, well, I'm not being CHARGED to view them am I? So you somehow didn't notice that 70% of Live Gold was ads and you got burned. Get over it, it's been weeks.
before you would all physically cram around the range of a single wifi point/ethernet connection. now you can have lots of devices connect to each other and effectively extend the range by creating a "net/mesh" instead of cramming around the same physical space.
The X-Fi3 keeps with the company's commitment to audio fidelity, thanks to the apt-X codec, which supposedly offers audio quality similar to a wired connection when streaming. On that front, the device also handles FLAC files.
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Please guys, read the damn article.
This doesn't just let you create an ad-hoc network. It lets you create an ad-hoc network while you're still connected to a wireless network, so it's kinda like having two wireless adapters.
It's not an article, it's an ad. And it mentions the wireless network you create has to run on the same channel as the one you join! That's not terribly useful I don't think. It sounds like a modified version of WDS, and it'll cut your bandwidth way, way down as every packet has to be sent twice over the same channel if it passes through your virtual base station.
"It's not an article, it's an ad."
See, LS, this is why I laugh when you complain about advertisements on that other device. Seriously, this is an ad? If this is an ad, why are you not complaining in every single post here on Engadget for being a shill, advertising cameras, computers, MP3 players, etc? Why would you subject yourself to these horrible, brain altering, demeaning advertisements by coming to a place like Engadget when they are beaming their subliminal "buy me" messages directly into your brain?
Take off the tinfoil hat.
I'm referring to the item at the link, not the engadget piece. it's not an article. An article is written by a journalist and pretends to be news. This is an ad. That's why it says "beta test now", and you have to click the button "FAQ" in the corner to see info. That's why it's hosted by the software maker. That's why it says "all sales are final" at the bottom.
As to the rest of your post, that chip on your shoulder must get damn heavy at times. Give it a rest some time. Why do I come to engadget and subject myself to ads? Hey, well, I'm not being CHARGED to view them am I? So you somehow didn't notice that 70% of Live Gold was ads and you got burned. Get over it, it's been weeks.
i think there is one main point for this:
*you can create mesh networks*
before you would all physically cram around the range of a single wifi point/ethernet connection. now you can have lots of devices connect to each other and effectively extend the range by creating a "net/mesh" instead of cramming around the same physical space.
interestingly enough, the OLPC device has this ability already:
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Mesh_Network_Details