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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

Morse Micro returns with yet another promising HaLow demonstration.

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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.

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- Just tear down this wall
  
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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.

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- 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.
  
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- You might want to look at LoRa
  
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Having this on a Wyze cam would be really interesting. 4mbps would be enough for 720p video…and at almost 10 miles??

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But at what speed?

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- Read the fucking article ya lazy cunt
  
  2 Megabits per second at 9.9 miles
  
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  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
  
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- 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.
  
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