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

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 54 points 6 months ago (2 children)

The room next to where you installed it at home will still have problems getting more than 2 lines of WiFi.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 months ago

Just tear down this wall

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 20 points 6 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

You might want to look at LoRa

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago (2 children)

But at what speed?

[+] [email protected] 33 points 6 months ago (1 children)

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

That's pretty good given (as far as I know) the main use case for HaLow is for low bandwidth, very low power use cases, like for IoT devices and other things you'd use Zigbee or Z-wave for today, including devices that run for years off a single button cell battery

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago (2 children)

It sounds like you're thinking of LoRa, another 900MHz radio protocol.

LoRa has similar bandwidth to Zigbee (125kbps), and as you say is designed for low-power devices running on battery. I have PIR motion sensors at home which have used only around a third of their battery after 2 years.

Security cameras seems to be a large target market for HaLow though, where you need a couple of megabits at a few hundred metres.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Serious question, why not use current wifi for that kind of distance?

I know, it's probably not really easy to make the comparison at this point - power usage is definitely part of that equation. Though the lower bandwidth of this doesn't seem quite enough for video?

Edit: I misread the bandwidth as 347kbit, not Mbit. So yea, this looks very promising for video, especially given the limitations of Wifi, plus using less power.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

I've never heard of LoRa. The marketing and whitepapers for HaLow specifically mention the things I did, for example https://www.wi-fi.org/discover-wi-fi/wi-fi-certified-halow

[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Looks like around 4Mbps link speed, so great for sensors and remote monitoring/controls and that kind of thing.

Sort of in between LoRa and normal Wifi.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

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