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Faster speeds are great and all but what I'd like to see prioritized is Wifi at the 900mhz band so we can have a long range option that penetrates through walls
by mikeweiss 2y ago
Faster speeds are great and all but what I'd like to see prioritized is Wifi at the 900mhz band so we can have a long range option that penetrates through walls. We must be at the point where we can manage to have relatively usable speeds in lower bands right?
- BenjiWiebe 2y agoPenetrating through walls is really bad in urban areas though. I'd love it for our farm in the middle of nowhere.
- 0_____0 2y agoHave you considered wireless network bridging and/or directional APs/antennas? Both of those could enable wifi to get where you need it.
- BenjiWiebe 2y agoWe do use some of that for building-to-building links. What would be nice is if smartphones supported a lower frequency band, so we could have some connection without having to be near a 2.4ghz hotspot. Our cell service pretty bad here.
- 0_____0 2y agoWhats with the 850/900MHz cell bands these days? Do providers where you are use spectrum that low? I guess at lower frequency maybe the data capacity is lower as well
- BenjiWiebe 2y agoVerizon uses band 13 (700Mhz) but it just lets them put the tower even farther away.
- AdamJacobMuller 2y agoThere are wireless options which operate in the 900mhz or lower bands, depending on what your use case is. 433Mhz LORA, for example.
- avidiax 2y agoMaximum possible throughput for LORA is 27kbps though. That's not a WiFi competitor unless you just want to link some sensors.
- cjaackie 2y agoWISP (wireless isp) operators have all sorts of neat directional gear that iirc is 900MHz because of the distance they can cover with it.
- BenjiWiebe 2y agoWhat would be nice is if phones could connect to a low-frequency wifi. We have 2.4ghz hotspots here and there, but a long range low speed signal that a phone could use for WhatsApp or similar would be really handy. Our cell service is very poor here.
- lurking_swe 2y agoif you have power on the other side of the farm, or if you can run POE power, the Unifi UDB Pro could be useful: https://youtu.be/SnCY9O2qCek?si=jgKWcvLaNfEkMCB0 https://youtu.be/SnCY9O2qCek?si=jgKWcvLaNfEkMCB0
- avidiax 2y ago900MHz would need to strongly encourage directional radiation (high EIRP, low TRP) for this to not end up as a congested wasteland like 2.4Ghz.
- wryun 2y agoSearch for WiFi HaLow. (I work for Morse Micro; we can do 30mbps udp)
- throawayonthe 2y ago[dead]