One group of scientists hailing from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and universities in the US, Israel and China isn't so impressed, having generated a wireless signal clocking in at 2.56Tbps.

ENGADGET: New wireless transmission tech hits 2.56Tbps, leaves WiFi feeling inadequate

To test the idea on a grand scale, researchers at Wageningen University and the Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute acquired the signal strengths from 2, 400 links operated by T-Mobile NL, over two 12-day periods in 2011.

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