fastest wifi – Lifeboat News: The Blog https://lifeboat.com/blog Safeguarding Humanity Wed, 17 Jul 2019 14:32:34 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 Is there an upper limit to WiFi speed? https://lifeboat.com/blog/2019/07/is-there-an-upper-limit-to-wifi-speed Wed, 17 Jul 2019 14:23:48 +0000 https://lifeboat.com/blog/?p=93774 As with many of my recent posts, this was originally a reply to a member of Quora, a Q&A web forum. But, it fits within Lifeboat’s educational mission and our fascination to push the limits of creativity and tech.

Is there a theoretical speed limit to WiFi devices over the next 10 years?

Because of four recent practices,* it is difficult to predict an upper limit for future overall throughput:

  1. Channel bonding
  2. Beam steering (MIMO shaping and directing the antenna pattern)
  3. Mesh Networking (i.e. subdividing a service area into micro-cells). Residential examples: Google WiFi, Netgear Orbi or TP-Link Deco
  4. Ultra wideband or Ultra-high frequency: In 2017, both Netgear and Asus introduced routers with 802.11ad WiFi (‘WiFi AD’). Although it still not widely adopted, it adds a 60 GHz radio to the existing 2.4 and 5 GHz radios, supporting 7 Gbps network speed).
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