The room next to where you installed it at home will still have problems getting more than 2 lines of WiFi.
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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?
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.