Boosts WiFi Performance by 700% with WiFox | Speed Up WiFi

WiFox a new invention, developed by team of engineers at NC State University (NCSU). Cafe, Airports, Conferences halls and many more offer free WiFi to visitors, but they are often sluggish in their operation because everyone else is hogging the connection. WiFox a new software protocol that could theoretically be added to existing Internet routers and is capable of boosting WiFi performance by 700 percent.

WiFox is like traffic policeman, ensuring that the data traffic moves smoothly in both directions. Purely software based, It can change the way of routers. WiFox monitor the traffic on a WiFi channel, intelligently detecting load issues and granting access to priority data. The research team, student Jeongki Min and Professor Injong Rhee, will present their findings at the ACM CoNEXT 2012 in December.

Using 45 devices connected at once, the researchers saw a 700% increase in throughput, which is impressive given what happens when a scrum of users tries to access the same access point at public locations.