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Re:OS X is holding back the 2013 MacBook Air’s 802.11ac Wi-F... by drewcrawford on Monday June 24, 2013 @06:10PM (#5936076)
Probably because afp or cifs are going to be the situation that ordinary people experience a WLAN bottleneck?

The speed of RTSP over 802.11ac would be relevant if you are giving a keynote address in your living room that needs to be streamed to the hundreds of interested participants in the kitchen.

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Re:OS X is holding back the 2013 MacBook Air’s 802.11ac Wi-F... by trotsky on Monday June 24, 2013 @06:26PM (#5936156)
yet they test 10ft los in a barren band, making it clear that they're trying to conduct an unrealistic lab style rf/phy interface test.
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