{"id":20497,"date":"2016-01-06T07:48:13","date_gmt":"2016-01-06T15:48:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/01\/802-11ah-wifi-will-penetrate-walls-more-easily-and-use-less-power"},"modified":"2017-04-24T23:10:09","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T06:10:09","slug":"802-11ah-wifi-will-penetrate-walls-more-easily-and-use-less-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/01\/802-11ah-wifi-will-penetrate-walls-more-easily-and-use-less-power","title":{"rendered":"802.11ah WiFi will penetrate walls more easily and use less power"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\\'blog-photo\\' href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/802-11ah-wifi-will-penetrate-walls-more-easily-and-use-less-power.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Walls and floors can seriously limit the range of your wireless network, but the WiFi Alliance thinks they\u2019ve come up with a fix. Their new 802.11ah standard aims to deliver superior penetration and power savings to boot.<\/p>\n<p>How will 802.11ah do that? By operating in the unlicensed 900MHz spectrum. Today\u2019s WiFi gear operates at either 2.4GHz or 5GHz. Their higher frequencies make it harder for the signals to maintain their strength as they pass through obstructions. That\u2019s one reason Google wants you to pretty up your OnHub router: so that you stick it somewhere out in the open where walls won\u2019t get in the way.<\/p>\n<p>Way down at 900MHz, though, things like walls, floors, and doors won\u2019t be as much of a problem. According to the WiFi Alliance, 802.11ah will also achieve nearly double the range of current standards. There\u2019s another bonus, too. Because the signal doesn\u2019t degrade as much when it passes through objects, devices don\u2019t consume as much power while sending and receiving data.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.geek.com\/news\/802-11ah-wifi-will-penetrate-walls-more-easily-and-use-less-power-1643756\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Walls and floors can seriously limit the range of your wireless network, but the WiFi Alliance thinks they\u2019ve come up with a fix. Their new 802.11ah standard aims to deliver superior penetration and power savings to boot. How will 802.11ah do that? By operating in the unlicensed 900MHz spectrum. Today\u2019s WiFi gear operates at either [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,418],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-internet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20497","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\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20497"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20497\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51194,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20497\/revisions\/51194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}