Tag Archives: wi-fi
Report Claims Apple to Adopt 802.11ac Gigabit Wi-Fi Sometime This Year
AppleInsider is reporting that Apple is planning to utilize the new, faster 802.11ac wi-fi standard in their products this year. The new standard is said to be considerably faster than the currently-used 802.11n standard. The new 802.11ac standard is being called “Gigabit WiFi” and claims to offer speeds up to …
Steve Jobs Hoped to Use an Unlicensed Wi-Fi Spectrum for an Apple Mobile Phone Network
IDG News Service is reporting on comments made by John Stanton, a venture capitalist, who claimed that Steve Jobs was looking into the possibility of using unlicensed Wi-Fi spectrums to set up their own mobile phone network. This was being investigated ahead of the original iPhone’s debut, and needless to …
Hidden Obvious Tip: Turn off your iPhone’s Wi-Fi radio when not in use
One of the things I had never thought to try on my iPhone (well, not consistently anyway) was to turn off wi-fi when there were no networks available. This really came down to two things: 1) when I first picked up my iPhone 2G I remember having read somewhere that …
AT&T Providing Free Wi-Fi for iPhone Users
It’s May… and do you know what that means!? Free Wi-Fi for everyone! Well, ok, not really… But AT&T has apparently started to offer free Wi-Fi to iPhone customers at some Wi-Fi hotspot locations. How does it work? Well, according to several reports (and as you can see by the …