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feistypharit | 1 year ago

Some of the very first WiFi was 915mhz. Slow, but reached everywhere!

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lxgr|1 year ago

Reaching everywhere is arguably a bug with WiFi: The more transmitters you can hear and vice versa (besides the ones you're communicating with), the more congestion.

thanksgiving|1 year ago

not necessarily always. for some use cases, it is better to have slow coverage than no coverage. Not for phones but temperature sensors or water leakage detectors are just two examples of what we could use this for today. However, bigger innovation will happen once we make unlicensed spectrum available.

Personally, I don't like there being more licensed spectrum. I think more spectrum should be unlicensed and therefore free for all who play by the rules.

UltraSane|1 year ago

Whatever happened to the 60Ghz WiFi? you would need a AP in every room but the bandwidth would be huge.

fallous|1 year ago

Yep, the old WaveLAN stuff. I had a parallel port adapter version of that back in 1997 for an old Compaq Pentium laptop that I used for portable web browsing and telnet sessions.