Uptake of 802.11n slowed down

Faster Wi-Fi has moved two steps back, after a key standards meeting knocked the leading proposal back and re-opened the debate to rivals.
The TGn Sync proposal needed a 75 percent majority in this week's meeting of the IEEE's 802.11n task group, to become the eventual IEEE standard. Instead, the Intel-backed standard dropped back below the 50 percent majority in won in the last meeting, so the debate is opened up again.
At the last meeting in March TGn Sync got enough to be the leader, but not the winner. Earlier this week, TGnSync members, fearing their support had waned, moved to adjourn this week's meeting in Queensland, Australia, without taking a second confirmation vote on the group's 11n technology proposal. The adjournment was rejected yesterday, and the group took the confirmation vote. Under IEEE rules, a proposal like this must win 75 percent of the vote to be accepted as the basis for a draft standard. At the first confirmation vote, the TGnSync plan won backing from 57 percent.
This week, the plan failed to get even a majority: only about 49 percent of those present voted for it.