> With the Wi-Fi HaLow’s 9.9 mile range, you could connect to your home Wi-Fi at work, at the grocery store, and even inside your car throughout your ride.
If your house is far enough up the side of a mountain to provide a LOS path to all those places then yeah, sure.
It's more like an alternative to LoRa and Sigfox: "It’s an open standard wireless network technology operating in the 850-950 MHz range. By operating in the sub-GHz range, this ultra-low-power wireless protocol can connect more IoT devices at much longer distances and much lower power than traditional Wi-Fi. The protocol is ratified by the IEEE 802.11ah task group and dubbed Wi-Fi HaLow® by the Wi-Fi Alliance. "
That frequency band might not be very available for this service if NextNav gets their way. They are petitioning to get priority in the currently unlicensed 902-928MHz band.
Use a lossy video codec if you need 300Mb/s for 240p streaming or just double check your math before making a fool of yourself with exaggerated claims.
If it has any initial success the tragedy of the commons will make it unusable unless you live on a farm. Up to 10 miles range from an omnidirectional antenna is only a feature until you realise home many people and their devices are within that range fighting it out for an average consumer. sigh
Its dissapointing there isnt any price information or similar.
I can see this being a huge benefit for the poorest and also quite helpful to bring pressure into mobile plans as they and ISPs compete directly with one another.
I can see this being a huge benefit for the poorest and also quite helpful to bring pressure into mobile plans as they and ISPs compete directly with one another.
Google promised to bring free WiFi to poor people in Chicago by putting access points in light poles.
It had a big press event with the mayor and all the media. Got millions in free publicity.
Then when it came time to actually build, Google bailed.
I've already been using HaLow for years to link my in-laws house to our holiday cottage. I get ~14Mbps which is enough for my wife and I to work remotely for a few days.
I purchased a cheap "CCTV wireless bridge" from AliExpress and it works fine. Sure, I could be paranoid about the security, but honestly these devices are dumb and the goats in that village aren't astute at hacking obscure wireless signals.
I'm using it at less than 1km, but that's because we're on a mountain and there's lots of trees that I have to cut through. I've previously tried 5GHz Ubiquiti gear but there's a particularly big tree I can't get through. I swapped out the omni-antenna for some UHF directional antennas to make it more selective.
Looks like this product is just a reference design for their silicon, I can't see anywhere you can actually buy it.
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[ 2.7 ms ] story [ 80.8 ms ] threadIf your house is far enough up the side of a mountain to provide a LOS path to all those places then yeah, sure.
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/09/nextnavs-callous-band-...
300Mbps supports a 4-person household all streaming 4k YouTube content simultaneously. Or two households streaming 4k Netflix content.
A lot of people still have 50Mbps or less speeds on their fixed broadband line and they’re streaming content just fine!
Would this device interfere with LoRa devices operating in the same area?
I can see this being a huge benefit for the poorest and also quite helpful to bring pressure into mobile plans as they and ISPs compete directly with one another.
Google promised to bring free WiFi to poor people in Chicago by putting access points in light poles.
It had a big press event with the mayor and all the media. Got millions in free publicity.
Then when it came time to actually build, Google bailed.
https://www.morsemicro.com/products/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_802.11ah
I purchased a cheap "CCTV wireless bridge" from AliExpress and it works fine. Sure, I could be paranoid about the security, but honestly these devices are dumb and the goats in that village aren't astute at hacking obscure wireless signals.
I'm using it at less than 1km, but that's because we're on a mountain and there's lots of trees that I have to cut through. I've previously tried 5GHz Ubiquiti gear but there's a particularly big tree I can't get through. I swapped out the omni-antenna for some UHF directional antennas to make it more selective.
Looks like this product is just a reference design for their silicon, I can't see anywhere you can actually buy it.