Making Your Wi-Fi 10x FASTER! - WiGig Explained
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·Techquickie
·2019-05-06
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wi-fi is great isn't it it can deliver real world speeds of a gigabit or more
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and lets you stream 4k and game to your heart's content
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that is assuming your router's up to scratch you don't have a bunch of junk
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in the way and your mom isn't causing network congestion binging say yes to
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the dress again but what if we could go faster
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i mean even though wi-fi speeds have increased dramatically over the past 20
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years slow downs are still common for
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all the reasons that we just outlined and this is where why gig could give us
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a huge assist now let's get this out of the way first contrary to popular belief
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why gig is not an informational campaign
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about the benefits of hunting frogs but rather a new Wi-Fi standard that promises
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speeds of over 40 gigabits per second
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on one stream now this is theoretical maximums of
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course and the first widespread y gig devices will probably have real world
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speeds of seven to eight gigabits per second but like that is still a huge
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improvement over current standards so how exactly then are they boosting
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wi-fi performance several times over
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well i'm glad you asked unlike traditional wi-fi which uses the 2.4
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gigahertz and 5 gigahertz bands to transmit data y-gig uses the 60
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gigahertz band meaning that its signals are much higher in frequency allowing
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them to transmit more data per second remember how the jump from 2.4 to 5
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gigahertz some years ago also sped things up quite a bit
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unfortunately this also means that y gig
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only works over ranges that are much shorter than traditional wi-fi you see
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higher frequency radio waves are more easily attenuated by obstacles that is
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to say they're blocked and you've probably seen this for yourself if
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you've ever walked far away from your router and then switched between 2.4 and
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5 gigahertz on your phone although 2.4 gigahertz is slower it also
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works at a greater range so back to y gig then it operates at a
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much higher frequency than even 5 gigahertz wi-fi which means that this
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effect becomes very pronounced to the point where y-gig honestly is mostly
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intended to connect gadgets within the same room
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so that sounds kind of lame doesn't it why are we even bothering
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because even though no one thinks that ygig is going to replace standard wi-fi
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for most people it could eliminate the need for wires in situations where being
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tethered down would be super annoying think about being able to cast a 4k
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stream between devices without having to rely on a congested primary wi-fi
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network or being able to use a vr headset without wondering if you're
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gonna rip the cables out if you wander too far off in fact the wireless adapter
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for the htc vive is already using ygig
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technology but why git could also find usage
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outside of this kind of super device specific communication many internet
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service providers for example are now offering home internet packages of one
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gigabit per second or even more and there is the possibility then that y gig
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could make users more likely to actually hit those advertised speeds since nearly
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every consumer pc sold in the last 20 years is limited to one gigabit wired
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networking though it should be noted that this is finally changing with two
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and a half five and ten gig taking off on the subject of taking off is why gig
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gonna take off well it's actually been around for a
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while under a slightly older standard that required clunkier equipment so it
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hasn't gotten terribly popular yet but we've just started seeing the first
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chips that support 802.11 a y the new
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standard for y gig that offers more flexibility and better range over the
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past few months so you might be able to find routers that support this new
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version of y gig sometime this year if you're willing to pay the premium times
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however many rooms you have in your house that you want to have why gig in
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because yeah the range sucks
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