Apple artificially lowers the rate of Wi-Fi in OS X 10.8?

One of the most important innovations of recent MacBook Air is not available in OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion due to software limitations.

Presented recently updated MacBook Air laptops support Wi-Fi-standard 802.11ac, which allows them to transfer data at speeds of more than 1 Gbit / s. Anand Lai Shimp (Anand Lai Shimpi) of AnandTech I found that OS X 10.8 velocity Wi-Fi-compound artificially reduced at the software level. During his studies Shimp found that the rate ranges from 21.2 Mb / s to 169.6 Mbit / s, which is significantly lower than laid down in the MacBook Air features: "Bad news is that the new MacBook Air can provide incredible data rate supplied to the market at the expense of 802.11ac, but as long as you can not notice. The good news is that this problem is solved at the program level. I have already sent to Apple on its findings and suggestions. I think in the future we will see a system upgrade that will solve this issue. "

Interestingly, the ars Technica declare the magnificent performance data transfer rates when using Boot Camp and Windows 8. As they say in their report, in this scenario, Wi-Fi in the new MacBook Air with support for 802.11ac operates noticeably quicker and smarter than when normal use of the operating system from Apple: the researchers have been able to gain a wireless connection speed by 218 percent.

Note that the entire industry looks forward to 802.11ac as a new standard in early 2014. Clearly, in Cupertino are planning to fully implement high-speed Wi-Fi at about the same time.