The most common wireless communication system for shortrange communication and high speed is the WI FI standard. It is rate and power adaptive since it uses adaptive ofdm modulation technology where very subcarrier can be modulated with an m order QAM with m is the number of constellation points in the QAM symbols. At the highest range one uses 4 QAM and as the range decreases the QAM order increases and consequently the dta rate increases. So,in principle the highest rates are achieved at the smallest distances. For more details please see the link:http://users.utcluj.ro/~dtl/STLA/Cursuri/Rap_fading.pdf