A beamforming technique used in a MIMO wireless transmission system determines a transmitter beamforming steering matrix using a matrix equalizer of a transmitter or a receiver within the MIMO communication system, to thereby increase the speed and/or to decrease the processing needed to implement effective beamforming within the transmitter of the communication system. While this beamforming technique may not provide the best possible set of steering coefficients that obtain the best possible transmission and reception in the communication system, this technique can provide increased performance over no beamforming without significantly increasing the processing overhead of the transmission system. This beamforming technique can used when a transmitter, with multiple transmitter antennas, is used to communicate with one or with multiple receivers within the communication system.