HaLow Wi-Fi has now been tested at 9.9 miles — new Wi-Fi world record is a near 5X increase over previous best

Alphane Moon@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.world – 181 points –
HaLow Wi-Fi has now been tested at 9.9 miles — new Wi-Fi world record is a near 5X increase over previous best
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The room next to where you installed it at home will still have problems getting more than 2 lines of WiFi.

Not a bad thing honestly, whats nice about high frequencies is lower penetration. More access points, lower power, overall better signal and less interference. Line-of-sight microwave for covering distance.

Fun stuff

I am interested in knowing what's the bandwidth to transmission power ratio of the device. If it's low enough, it would be revolutionary for IoT devices.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_802.11ah

347 Mbit/s maximum. (But don't expect that at 9.9 miles...)

The "WiFi HaLow"name itself indicates lower power usage than traditional Wifi, largely because it uses the 900MHz band instead of the 2.4/5/6GHz bands.

Likewise, it isn't compatible with existing WiFi client devices that don't operate at those bands.

Having this on a Wyze cam would be really interesting. 4mbps would be enough for 720p video…and at almost 10 miles??