802.11n draft fails to get requisite two thumbs up

The other day we covered vendors hawking their 802.11n wireless devices, despite the fact that the standard hasn’t been ratified yet. And now, it looks as if another delay is in the works as the draft standard that was under review by the IEEE has not been adopted .

The Draft 1.0 of the new 802.11n Wi-Fi standard was voted on during a working group meeting Tuesday, but it did not garner the necessary 75 percent approval that it needed to move forward as the final draft. Comments and potential changes will be submitted to the working group and discussed during the IEEE’s May meeting.

Whether this is bad news for those consumers who have already invested in a new router remains to be seen though “[e]xperts believe the implementation of the 802.11n specifications will likely change dramatically from the version these vendors are using.”

At worst it will probably require a firmware update to the router, but there always exists the possibility that Netgear, Belkin, Linksys, and the like have shot themselves in the foot, just to get out the door a little earlier.

[via Gizmodo ]