{"id":1211,"date":"2016-09-28T23:39:50","date_gmt":"2016-09-29T05:39:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jaredrobinson.com\/blog\/?p=1211"},"modified":"2016-11-29T21:24:49","modified_gmt":"2016-11-30T04:24:49","slug":"faster-wifi-802-11ac-and-802-11ad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jaredrobinson.com\/blog\/faster-wifi-802-11ac-and-802-11ad\/","title":{"rendered":"Faster WiFi: 802.11ac and 802.11ad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I must be out of touch with WiFi networking. The last thing I remember is when 802.11n came out and supported up to 72 Mbps network speeds. Last year, I think we finally jettisoned our last computing device that was 802.11g. Oh wait, I forgot about my home security system. It still uses an 802.11g 2 GHz network &#8212; the same frequency that <a href=\"https:\/\/support.apple.com\/en-us\/HT201542\">commonly gets interference<\/a> from microwave ovens, old bluetooth devices, cordless phones, baby monitors, and more.<\/p>\n<p>While I&#8217;ve been &#8220;out of touch&#8221;, 802.11ac has become available. It operates at 5 Ghz and in most home networks, will run no faster than 800 Mbps. The iPhone 6 and LG Nexus 6 support 802.11ac. The 5 GHz frequency range gets less interference than the 2 GHz range.<\/p>\n<p>In the next few years, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wireless_Gigabit_Alliance\">WiGig<\/a> (aka 802.11ad) will become available. It operates in the 60 GHz range, and supports streaming 4K video, and can offer throughput of up to 7 Gbit\/s.<\/p>\n<p>I look forward to faster WiFi. In the meantime, when I have the need for speed, I use a wired ethernet connection.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I must be out of touch with WiFi networking. The last thing I remember is when 802.11n came out and supported up to 72 Mbps network speeds. Last year, I think we finally jettisoned our last computing device that was 802.11g. Oh wait, I forgot about my home security system. It still uses an 802.11g &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jaredrobinson.com\/blog\/faster-wifi-802-11ac-and-802-11ad\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Faster WiFi: 802.11ac and 802.11ad&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jaredrobinson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jaredrobinson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jaredrobinson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jaredrobinson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jaredrobinson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1211"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/jaredrobinson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1211\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1222,"href":"https:\/\/jaredrobinson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1211\/revisions\/1222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jaredrobinson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jaredrobinson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jaredrobinson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}