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The alleged/misunderstood "fragility" can be exploited though. A lot of residential walls are gypsum board, which contains a lot of water, and attenuates microw
by exabrial 2y ago
The alleged/misunderstood "fragility" can be exploited though. A lot of residential walls are gypsum board, which contains a lot of water, and attenuates microwave signals.
Rather than fight this by trying to shout as loud as you can from a single AP across the house, you can put smaller, weaker APs in multiple rooms. Because of the excellent open air penetration and high frequency, you can get a multi-gig links with no interference or competition.
- dogboat 2y agoCan you get that down to low latency? Say less than 1ms for the hops?
- rnewme 2y agoNo, at least not with current stack. Each hop adds big overhead
- Filligree 2y agoWell, you can get close if you pull ethernet to the APs.
- rnewme 2y agoThen you don't have the hops, and the question was about that..
- dogboat 2y agoYes if I have an ethernet cable in each room, I just extend that to the device. Palaces may be exceptions to that.
- GreenWatermelon 2y agoBut you can't extend that cable to a mobile phone or a VR headset, in which case high-speed low-interference access points could prove useful.