Wi-Fi Router at CES 2025 Has a Connectivity Radius of 9.9 Miles
18 points by danboarder 4 hours ago | 19 comments
  • bigfatkitten 3 hours ago |
    > With the Wi-Fi HaLow’s 9.9 mile range, you could connect to your home Wi-Fi at work, at the grocery store, and even inside your car throughout your ride.

    If your house is far enough up the side of a mountain to provide a LOS path to all those places then yeah, sure.

    • everdrive 33 minutes ago |
      Such a range would really increase the necessity of improved WiFi security.
  • davidt84 an hour ago |
    I'm sure everyone living in a 10 mile radius will be delighted by the increased noise floor.
  • femto an hour ago |
    The compromise is bandwidth and data rate. 802.11ah operates in the 900MHz band.
  • nubinetwork an hour ago |
    300mbps might be enough for 240p video, but that still sounds painfully slow.
    • rolandog an hour ago |
      On the plus side, it might finally create an incentive for decluttering websites... given enough adoption.
    • Savageman an hour ago |
      I have 400Mbps at home, I can play online games with 50ms ping and watch 1080p on YouTube, it's enough for most people.
    • crest 42 minutes ago |
      Use a lossy video codec if you need 300Mb/s for 240p streaming or just double check your math before making a fool of yourself with exaggerated claims.
    • slau 28 minutes ago |
      YouTube supports 8K@60 at 300Mbps. I think most cat videos should stream without buffering.
    • sevg 18 minutes ago |
      I can’t tell if this is a bad joke?

      300Mbps supports a 4-person household all streaming 4k YouTube content simultaneously. Or two households streaming 4k Netflix content.

      A lot of people still have 50Mbps or less speeds on their fixed broadband line and they’re streaming content just fine!

  • clumsysmurf an hour ago |
    > It relies on Sub-GHz frequency waves that travel long distances

    Would this device interfere with LoRa devices operating in the same area?

    • cjtrowbridge an hour ago |
      Yes it's the same bands as lora
  • crest an hour ago |
    If it has any initial success the tragedy of the commons will make it unusable unless you live on a farm. Up to 10 miles range from an omnidirectional antenna is only a feature until you realise home many people and their devices are within that range fighting it out for an average consumer. sigh
    • everdrive 34 minutes ago |
      Finally, the same tragedy of the commons which brought us excessively bright headlights can now ruin the wireless spectrum.
  • IG_Semmelweiss 42 minutes ago |
    Its dissapointing there isnt any price information or similar.

    I can see this being a huge benefit for the poorest and also quite helpful to bring pressure into mobile plans as they and ISPs compete directly with one another.

    • reaperducer 2 minutes ago |
      I can see this being a huge benefit for the poorest and also quite helpful to bring pressure into mobile plans as they and ISPs compete directly with one another.

      Google promised to bring free WiFi to poor people in Chicago by putting access points in light poles.

      It had a big press event with the mayor and all the media. Got millions in free publicity.

      Then when it came time to actually build, Google bailed.

  • gary_0 19 minutes ago |
    That's 32.5 megabits/sec, not MB/s. It uses the 802.11ah standard.

    https://www.morsemicro.com/products/

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_802.11ah

    • tiffanyh 14 minutes ago |
      … which is about 4MB/s
  • sgt 16 minutes ago |
    Somehow my WiFi's ideal radius is 9.9 meters