mox@lemmy.sdf.org to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 months agoWi-Fi Goes Long Range on New WiLo Standardspectrum.ieee.orgexternal-linkmessage-square60fedilinkarrow-up1320arrow-down12cross-posted to: hackernews
arrow-up1318arrow-down1external-linkWi-Fi Goes Long Range on New WiLo Standardspectrum.ieee.orgmox@lemmy.sdf.org to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 months agomessage-square60fedilinkcross-posted to: hackernews
minus-squareBrkdncr@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·3 months agoI think the article is explaining that this is really just modifying wifi protocols to work over LoRa, to reduce LoRa costs. This will probably only be beneficial to people currently using LoRa.
minus-squarejaxxed@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·3 months agoI thought that LORA was optimized for low data throughput? Running WIFI over such a link would suck.
minus-squarePreflight_Tomato@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·3 months agoAlso isn’t LoRa proprietary/patent encumbered?
I think the article is explaining that this is really just modifying wifi protocols to work over LoRa, to reduce LoRa costs.
This will probably only be beneficial to people currently using LoRa.
I thought that LORA was optimized for low data throughput? Running WIFI over such a link would suck.
Also isn’t LoRa proprietary/patent encumbered?