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      Ruckus Wireless WiFIs Well For Streaming, HiDef

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      Eric Lundquist
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      December 8, 2006
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        Ruckus Wireless WiFIs Well For Streaming, HiDef A/B/G MIMO Router, Adapter Pump Up The Bandwidth

        by Daniel P. Dern ([email protected])

        Vendor: Ruckus Wireless, Inc. Product Name: MediaFlex Router, MSRP $159

        MediaFlex Adapter, MSRP $100

        Availability: Now. Product URL: http://www.ruckuswireless.com/products/

        The WiFI capabilities built into today’s affordably inexpensive — $30-ish to $150 — home broadband gateways are good enough for computer and possibly VoIP, but not necessarily good enough to send IPTV, or to move large files, e.g. from MovieLink to your PC, or from your media center (e.g. a Media Center PC, or a UPnP NAS). “Standard WiFi isn’t going to handle video well,” according to David Callisch, Marketing Director at Ruckus Wireless. “It doesn’t handle jitter or delay well.” The same problems can apply to streaming music, and VoIP.

        Even opening or closing a door — or turning on the microwave — can whack WiFi performance, causing speckly stuff on your

        TV, or burping that Xbox or Nintendo move.

        You could try using a slightly better antenna.

        Or, if you’re serious, consider Ruckus Wireless’s MediaFlex products,

        which use MIMO-enhanced A/B/G WiFI for “video-grade, high-performance

        wireless networking…to provide stutter-free, high quality video and music throughout a home.”

        The smart antennae extend the signal so you won’t get dead spots, and directs the RF signal, by determining which of the device’s antenna to use, “steering around” interference. Ruckus claims they can extend 802.11b/g range and coverage

        by up to 300 percent.

        Ruckus’s MediaFlex Router connects to your broadband connection; your notebooks, handhelds, WiFi phones and other devices

        work fine (probably better) with it. So will WiFI-equipped streaming media devices.

        The MediaFlex Adapters are for use with set-tops and other devices

        with Ethernet ports but no built-in WiFi … or if you want

        best performance, e.g. for gaming, or to work on your PC farther from the router.

        Showing alongside Ruckus at the recent Ziff-David Digital Life Expo in New York City was Slim Devices (just bought by Logitech) with their $249 Squeezebox wireless streaming audio player, able to

        act as a source to your stereo, and the soon available $2K-ish Transporter

        for feeding your digital or analog TV.

        Eric Lundquist
        Since 1996, Eric Lundquist has been Editor in Chief of eWEEK, which includes domestic, international and online editions. As eWEEK's EIC, Lundquist oversees a staff of nearly 40 editors, reporters and Labs analysts covering product, services and companies in the high-technology community. He is a frequent speaker at industry gatherings and user events and sits on numerous advisory boards. Eric writes the popular weekly column, 'Up Front,' and he is a confidant of eWEEK's Spencer F. Katt gossip columnist.

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