It sounds like progress is finally being made in the latest WLAN standard. A fairly confusing article in EE Times talked about an agreement that seems to short-circuit another agreement that apparently was disagreeable to some members of the committee. I certainly hope so, because personally I have refused to buy any of the ‘pre-n’ products that have shown up on the market. I figure that if any of these things start selling well it will only encourage those who are trying to stonewall the new standard.

This article follows a fairly pointed editorial from Craig Mathias on the subject last week. He stretched a bit on his ‘bear-in-the-woods’ analogy, though. These guys are not trying to keep from being eaten, they are trying to get to the honey pot themselves and ace the others out as long as possible.

While these guys are screwing around the current standard is becoming more and more entrenched. It may turn out that by the time they finally put out a new standard a lot fewer people will be interested in it.

Larry Mittag