Comment on Wifi 15 gigabytes per second — Researchers demo invention

Oisteink@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• undefined@lemmy.hogru.ch ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  In the US we’ll do anything but build fiber with the billions we tossed at the telecom industry.

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  • BluescreenOfDeath@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Putting fiber in the ground is expensive. I work for an ISP, and we estimate fiber overbuild costs at $15/ft. So a mile of underground fiber costs about $79,200.

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    • Sarmyth@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Yup. That’s why we gave them all that money years ago to do it. It was cheaper then too.

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• heyWhatsay@slrpnk.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  One example I’ve read, was to remotely drive autonomous vehicles, and feed back all data collected from cameras and sensors. I’m not a fan of it being used this way, but it would mostly serve that kind of purpose.

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• cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  For home use, all I can think of is wireless video. 15 GB/s is faster than the fastest DisplayPort or HDMI versions. It could handle any resolution and refresh rate currently in use without any compression. That would be useful for VR headsets since they need low latency.

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  • Oisteink@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Yeah - that covers about 1/100000 users

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    • phar@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I’m pretty sure anyone using an HDMI cable could appreciate having no cables except power.

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      • cravl@slrpnk.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        On the flip side, if you still need a power cable anyway, it’s usually way cheaper to bundle the media (and optionally control/network) signals into the same cable than using wireless.

        Now, with true wireless power (I’m thinking of this video in particular), that proposition can change dramatically.

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• MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Big data needs that, so it can spy you better.

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• FauxLiving@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Everything, no, to move data quicker, no

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• msage@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  VR headset streaming video from PC without cables.

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• n3m37h@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  1.5gb/s is way more than enough for the average person. Hell, 200Mb/s is more than enough. That would only be 10 min.

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• DSN9@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  The distribution of all human knowledge, untampered.

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• potatogamer@ttrpg.network ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  More bandwidth available for users means more people can do more things on the internet and at a higher quality.

  If cell phone speeds are high enough, then we should be able to transition from wired internet which is not available to a lot of people to only using cell networks.

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• NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  For phones / portables, assuming it doesn’t draw more power, it would mean shorter download times, which means less battery usage.

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  • Peruvian_Skies@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    “Assuming it doesn’t draw more power” has got to be the proboem here, right? I don’t know much about wireless technology but from a purely physical stabdpoint, faster signals means higher frequencies, which means higher energies, which means more draw from the battery. Yes, shorter active time means less draw, but it’s like that swiss cheese joke:

    Swiss cheese has holes. More cheese = more holes More holes = less cheese Therefore, More cheese = less cheese.

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• kalleboo@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Laptops have all but taken over from desktops for everything but AAA gaming. New houses are still built with zero Ethernet because “the internet is Wi-Fi right?”

  People are using their laptops to edit video off of a NAS, MacBooks can run 100 GB LLMs. Heck even non-AAA games are many gigabytes.

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