TIL: There is a 60GHz WiFi
Also known as:
- Why cannot I connect to the internet?!
- *knock, knock*
- Who's there?
- The WiFi

The same with LiFi: Receiving might be easy (e.g. by LiFi enabled ambient lights), but sending is a bit more difficult.

60GHz or 6GHz?

@chabad360 60ghz wouldn't go through like anything, so I'm guessing 6.

@Root That too. I just remembered hearing Wi-Fi moving onto 6GHz not 60...

@Root @chabad360 No, 60 GHz is correct. From Wikipedia: "IEEE 802.11ad is an amendment to the IEEE 802.11 wireless networking standard, developed to provide a Multiple Gigabit Wireless System (MGWS) standard at 60 GHz frequency [...]." (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/...).
There theoretical transmission speed is 7 GBit/s.

There also is 802.11ay, a future replacement for 802.11ad on 60 GHz.

@sbiewald Genius! The Cisco/Netgear/Etc. Lobby figured out a way to get us to buy tons of extenders!

@sbiewald damn, beat me to the response... Not fair, I was asleep :D

@chabad360 Mooore, mooore Aruba APs! 😂😂😂

@bytecode yes! More lack of normal network design, LIKE WE NEED IT!

@Root it's a feature that it won't go through. That, together with beamforming, reduces interference from nearby users of the same channel.

@Root @electrineer I also guess this could be used to connect multiple buildings as a standardized high speed directional radio.

Some of us Hams have been playing with 60Ghz+ stuff for a while you know, with much further distance than WiFi ;)

Just don't ask us what the data rate is 😂

@AlmondSauce I'm sorry but I'll have to ask: what is the data rate?

Also Sony is beta testing some long range system that uses like 20MHz or 60MHz or somewhere in between (if I recall correctly), and the data rate on it is less than 1kbps...

@chabad360 Have to correct my last post, didn't read that properly - should be 47Ghz+. Never touched 60 personally, but know a couple of people who've played around with 122Ghz.

That being said, because it's usually just the technical feat of communicating *something* over that frequency that's being tried, the data being sent is usually plain old morse code with bandwidth of a few words a minute 😂

@AlmondSauce aww man... That doesn't count... Why not try sending other things, like files (if you can send Morse code, you can send anything), and then comparing the md5.

@Root @sbiewald @chabad360 @chabad360 @chabad360 @electrineer @sbiewald

For fucks sake. 60GHz band isnt for your normal wifi shit. Use lower freq because they can go through walls better. 60GHz wifi is supposed to be used for short range high bandwith applications like VR. Stop complaining, it isnt replacing the old standards but it introduces new funcionality for special uses.

@Gregozor2121 Hey, I didn't complain at all :)

@Gregozor2121 than why call it WiFi? Call it HiWi. Or don't give it a consumer name at all. Because most consumer devices won't support it, and because you'll need to have special APs to use it anyway...

I'm not complaining, I'm being sarcastic...

@chabad360 Sorry the official name of 802.11ad is WiGig, sould have used that in my original post, I am sure everyone would get what I am talking about... *holds up a "sarcasm" sign*

@bytecode much better actually, but my only complaint is that WiredGig has a far longer distance....

@chabad360 not necessarily. It depends on the length of your cable and the gain of your antenna etc. .

@electrineer theoretical distance...

And even then, a antenna with a high enough gain to detect 60GHz at a relatively far distance will get a lot of noise...