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starting with 802.11ax ("Wifi 6") [0] they've started doing frequency-division [1], in addition to time-division. as I understand it, a channel can be effectiv
by evil-olive 2y ago
starting with 802.11ax ("Wifi 6") [0] they've started doing frequency-division [1], in addition to time-division.
as I understand it, a channel can be effectively divided into K separate sub-channels, and then in a crowded space with N active users, your time-division only needs to contend with N/K other users.
this dovetails well with Wifi 6E expanding to the 6ghz range, and Wifi 7 (among other things) expanding channel bandwidth to as large as 320mhz. (compare this to classic 2.4ghz having only 3 non-overlapping channels of 20mhz width each)
0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wi-Fi_6 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wi-Fi_6
1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orthogonal_frequency-division_multiple_access https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orthogonal_frequency-division_...
- mmooss 2y agoThanks. > starting with 802.11ax ("Wifi 6") [0] they've started doing frequency-division How does that differ from multiple radios running multiple connections? Is it that there are many more frequencies, closer together, dynamically allocated?