Ruckus Smart Antennas May Be Key to Nationwide Wi-Fi

Having seen these in action at MacTech Conference last month, I was seriously impressed.<p>At most conferences I've been at, the wifi tends to die or have performance problems.<p>In this case, it was actually usable with effectively no performance/signal issues even with 200+ people (probably 300+ devices between laptops/iPads/iPhones) in a large hotel conference room.

Even if this worked for nationwide wifi, I wouldn't want it. WiFi is a horrible protocol for wide areas... and that's why it wasn't designed that way. Intel's version of WiMax, despite it looking like LTE is the 4g winner, is more analogous to what nationwide WiFi should be.

I am using the Tikona broadband service (mentioned in the article) in Mumbai, India. Reception and the speed seem to be good. I didn't know that this was not available in the developed countries.