Fast Home Wireless: A Content Weapon?

Broadcom announced the guts for a new kind of home router that is says will zip information around the house at up to 3.2 gigabits per second, about twice what a current, high-end home Wi-Fi device can do.

It is meant to handle all kinds of video, to and from phones, tablets, computers and connected televisions. Under good circumstances, a speed like that could send a high-definition movie in significantly less than 30 seconds. In other words, it won’t matter much where the video came from, and it can go anywhere. That is likely to lead to preferences for lower-cost providers, who supply video that can be well displayed among a lot of different sources.