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Researchers Find Way to Boost WiFi Performance 400-700 Percent
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As many WiFi users know, WiFi performance is often poor in areas where there are a lot of users, such as airports or coffee shops.But researchers at North Carolina State University have developed a new software program, called WiFox, which can be incorporated into existing networks and expedites data traffic in large audience WiFi environments – improving data throughput by up to 700 percent.
WiFi traffic gets slowed down in high-population environments because computer users and the WiFi access point they are connected to have to send data back and forth via a single channel.
If a large number of users are submitting data requests on that channel, it is more difficult for the access point to send them back the data they requested. Similarly, if the access point is permanently given a high priority – enabling it to override user requests in order to send out its data – users would have trouble submitting their data requests. Either way, things slow down when there is a data traffic jam on the shared channel.
See more and subscribe to NextBigFuture at 2012-11-15 02:42:13 Source: http://nextbigfuture.com/2012/11/researchers-find-way-to-boost-wifi.html
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