The Netgear 6200 WiFi adapter is the first of its kind that supports the 802.11ac-based wireless standard. Future devices will come with built-in support for 802.11ac. Since you can only take advantage of the 802.11ac speed when the client side also supports the standard, this USB adapter is important and allows users to manually add 802.11ac to their laptop or desktop computer. It's also backward compatible with 802.11n/g/a/b routers. The A6200 WiFi Adapter is the first USB 802.11ac-based adapter on the market and offers speeds up to 900Mbps.

Netgear demonstrates how 802.11ac allows for instant playback of multiple high-def movies via a wireless network. Generally, 802.11ac uses only the 5Ghz frequency band and forgoes the crowded 2.4Ghz band. The R6200 WiFi router is similar to the R6300, except it supports only the two-stream standard of 802.11ac (up to 900Mbps on the 5Ghz band) and has only one USB 2.0 port. The router is fully backward compatible with all existing wireless n/g/a/b clients and also comes with two USB 2.0 ports to host external hard drive and printers. On the 2.4Ghz band, it supports the three-stream version of the existing Wireless-N standard, offering up to 450Mbps. The Netgear R6300 is the top of the line and supports the three-stream 802.11ac standard that offers up to 1.3Gbps on Wi-Fi speed on the 5Ghz band. These devices include two routers, the Netgear R6300 WiFi and the R6300 WiFi, and one USB adapter, the A6200 WiFi.Īll of these devices are based on the new 802.11ac Wi-Fi standard (or 5G Wi-Fi, as Broadcom calls it). The new 6300 WiFi 802.11ac-based router from Netgear. These are the chips that Broadcom showed off in preparation for and during CES 2012. Netgear today teamed up with Broadcom to announce and demonstrate a new line of wireless networking products that use Broadcom's 802.11ac chips.

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