Summary:<p>802.11ah: Better range, lower bandwidth<p>802.11ad: Better bandwidth. Doesn't go through walls.<p>802.11ax: Successor to 11ac expected in 2019
I see this is 900MHz, how will that fair in countries that utilise GSM900 as that may certainly be a restriction in adoption for some countries due to frequency clash, would it not?
My main issue here is that each new wi-fi standard requires new hardware. I remember reading something within the past few years about revolutionary new wi-fi antennas that will be able to adapt to any frequency such that new hardware wouldn't be an issue. I wonder if anyone has seen anything similar?
Cool. I'd rather see a standard capable of carrying gigabit traffic. Sure there is ac, but after noise & overheads it comes nowhere close.<p>So you've got people like me that can both get and afford gigabit but opt for 100mbps because the wireless tech isn't keeping up.
"Twice the range".. Is that a doubling of the radius or a doubling of the diameter <i>(edit: oops, I meant area)</i> of a ~ circle surrounding the access point?<p>Am I being spoiled thinking either of those options aren't super impressive for a whole new standard? Where's the 10x (order of magnitude) improvement? Will it take 3-5 further complete iterations of incompatible standards? :)
Where is it? Can I read it? All I'm seeing is a press release linking to other articles that are mere low-effort copies of the same press release.<p>Also, previous discussion here:<p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10838973" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10838973</a>
I recently bought an 802.11ac wifi adapter promising a nice theoretical 600Mbs in the 5Ghz band and all I was able to get from it was a practical 65-70Mbs (at 2 meters from an 802.11ac router) using the best drivers under Windows. Under Linux the (5Ghz)AC mode didn't work (buggy driver; no vendor support) so I was back in 802.11n mode. Quite underwhelming after spending 200 euros on router and adapter. I will definitely not "early adopt" wifi 802.11ah whenever it appears..