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New 802.22 Wi-Fi standard has a range of 62 miles

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Tired of your Wi-Fi cutting out every time you take your laptop into the bathroom with you? IEEE (also known as the Institute of electronics geeks) has just released a new, official standard for 802.22 Wi-Fi, and this bad boy can cover 12,000 square miles with just one single base station.



You should already be familiar with 802.11 a/b/g/n, which is likely the wireless standard that you currently use to connect to the Internet. 802.11 is doing perfectly fine, and there's no need to worry that this new standard is going to immediately render your router useless. 802.22, besides being a solid 0.11 more awesome (for whatever that's worth) is designed to take advantage of all that new broadcast spectrum that opened up when we put the smackdown on analog TVs a couple years ago.


The spectrum that 802.22 will operate in ranges from 54MHz to 698MHz, and the reason that TVs were already in that niche was because these frequencies are great for long distance transmissions. This means that the new Wi-Fi standard will be able to broacast data at up to 22 Mbps out to a whopping 62 miles from just one single base station, making it easy to provide rural broadband or to blanket cities with municipal Wi-Fi.


Now that the official standard has been approved, companies can go start building things that incorporate 802.22 technology, so it's really just a matter of time before none of us are without Wi-Fi access ever again. Phew.

Free WiFi Analyzers For Laptops, Mobile Devices

WifiWiFi Signal sometimes can be weak and may cause internet speed issues. Your download may choke or slow down. You may want to see the best place to get high WiFi signals. reasons may be plenty, but WiFi analyzers are essential to analyze your WiFi signal strength. Here is a partial list of WiFi Analyzer tools for Laptops, Windows Mobile, Android and iPhone. If you know better ones, please add a comment, we will take a look at them.

 

inSSIDer

inSSIDer is an award winning free WiFi analyzer for Windows Vista/XP systems. It can do a lot of help for you;

  • Inspect your WLAN and surrounding networks to troubleshoot competing access points.

  • Track the strength of received signal in dBm over time.

  • Filter access points in an easy to use format.

  • Highlight access points for areas with high Wi-Fi concentration

  • Export Wi-Fi and GPS data to a KML file to view in Google Earth.

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AirGrab – for Mac OS

AirGrab WiFi Radar  is a tool to display information about Apple Airport base stations and other WiFi (802.11b/g/n) wireless  access points. Using AirGrab WiFi Radar you can determine most popular WiFi channels and select optimal channel for your WiFi network. Signal level and Noise level helps to diagnose common wireless network problems and optimally position your base station and or computer to achieve the best possible signal strength.

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WiFi Monster – for Windows Mobile

The best Wi-Fi discovery tool for PocketPC and Windows Mobile.

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WiFi Analyzer – for Android

Analyze WiFi signals straight from your Android device. More info is here.

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WiFi Speed Meter – for iPhone

Accurately measure your wireless internet connection, using an advanced mathematical model with the WiFiSpeed webapp. WiFiSpeed allows you to take repeated measurements and it will continuously average your result with the previous ones, for a more accurate reading. Check it out here.

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