Most of us haven’t even upgraded our wireless networks to 802.11g yet, and already someone’s come out with another standard. Airgo hopes that it’s new wireless data standard, which has double the speed (54Mbps vs. 108Mbps) and up to six times the range of 802.11a and 802.11g, will emerge as the successor to WiFi. There’s one major downside though: it’s not compatible with any of the current standards, something that has definitely given 802.11g (which is backwards compatible with 802.11b) a leg up over its main competition, 802.11a.
