{"id":105987,"date":"2020-04-24T15:04:05","date_gmt":"2020-04-24T22:04:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/wi-fi-to-get-its-biggest-upgrade-in-20-years-after-fccs-6ghz-decision"},"modified":"2020-04-24T15:04:05","modified_gmt":"2020-04-24T22:04:05","slug":"wi-fi-to-get-its-biggest-upgrade-in-20-years-after-fccs-6ghz-decision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/wi-fi-to-get-its-biggest-upgrade-in-20-years-after-fccs-6ghz-decision","title":{"rendered":"Wi-Fi to get its biggest upgrade in 20 years after FCC\u2019s 6GHz decision"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><video width=\"636\" height=\"358\" controls><source src=\"https:\/\/videos.dailymail.co.uk\/video\/mol\/2020\/04\/24\/6511550694041339804\/1024x576_MP4_6511550694041339804.mp4\" type=\"video\/mp4\"><\/video><\/p>\n<p>Wi-Fi to gets its biggest upgrade in 20 years: US authorities agree to open up a huge chunk of radio spectrum in the 6GHz frequency band to internet routers \u2014 and it could massively improve your connection speed\u2026<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>The US Federal Communications Commission is opening up radio spectrum in the 6GHz frequency band, ushering a new era of fast, low-latency internet connections.<\/p>\n<p>The decision, voted on unanimously <a class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/docs.fcc.gov\/public\/attachments\/DOC-363945A1.pdf\">by the FCC<\/a>, will add 1,200 Megahertz of Wi-Fi for unlicensed use and increase the amount of Wi-Fi spectrum by nearly fivefold.<\/p>\n<p>The release of the spectrum offers new radio waves for routers, and is likely to result in better Wi-Fi service speeds, hyper-low latency and higher network capacity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wi-Fi to gets its biggest upgrade in 20 years: US authorities agree to open up a huge chunk of radio spectrum in the 6GHz frequency band to internet routers \u2014 and it could massively improve your connection speed\u2026 The US Federal Communications Commission is opening up radio spectrum in the 6GHz frequency band, ushering a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":409,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[418],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-105987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105987","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/409"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105987"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105987\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}