The room next to where you installed it at home will still have problems getting more than 2 lines of WiFi.
Just tear down this wall
Not a bad thing honestly, whats nice about high frequencies is lower penetration. More access points, lower power, overall better signal and less interference. Line-of-sight microwave for covering distance.
Fun stuff
I am interested in knowing what’s the bandwidth to transmission power ratio of the device. If it’s low enough, it would be revolutionary for IoT devices.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_802.11ah
347 Mbit/s maximum. (But don’t expect that at 9.9 miles…)
The "WiFi HaLow"name itself indicates lower power usage than traditional Wifi, largely because it uses the 900MHz band instead of the 2.4/5/6GHz bands.
Likewise, it isn’t compatible with existing WiFi client devices that don’t operate at those bands.
You might want to look at LoRa
Having this on a Wyze cam would be really interesting. 4mbps would be enough for 720p video…and at almost 10 miles??
But at what speed?
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That’s pretty good given (as far as I know) the main use case for HaLow is for low bandwidth, very low power use cases, like for IoT devices and other things you’d use Zigbee or Z-wave for today, including devices that run for years off a single button cell battery
It sounds like you’re thinking of LoRa, another 900MHz radio protocol.
LoRa has similar bandwidth to Zigbee (125kbps), and as you say is designed for low-power devices running on battery. I have PIR motion sensors at home which have used only around a third of their battery after 2 years.
Security cameras seems to be a large target market for HaLow though, where you need a couple of megabits at a few hundred metres.
I’ve never heard of LoRa. The marketing and whitepapers for HaLow specifically mention the things I did, for example https://www.wi-fi.org/discover-wi-fi/wi-fi-certified-halow
Looks like around 4Mbps link speed, so great for sensors and remote monitoring/controls and that kind of thing.
Sort of in between LoRa and normal Wifi.
