Proponents boast that 802.11bb is 100 times faster than Wi-Fi and more secure.

  • Big P
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    261 year ago

    Isn’t WiFi technically light based? It’s all just electromagnetic radiation

    • @technojamin@lemmy.world
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      71 year ago

      From the Wikipedia article on light:

      Light or visible light is electromagnetic radiation that can be perceived by the human eye.

      But also:

      In physics, the term “light” may refer more broadly to electromagnetic radiation of any wavelength, whether visible or not.

      So yeah, depends on your usage of the term “light”, but colloquially (and in this context), it’s referring to visible light.

      • fearout
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        1 year ago

        Radio and light are the same thing from a physics standpoint, just different ranges of electromagnetic spectrum.

        So phones and communication towers are basically flashlights blinking at each other using invisible light, to which walls/buildings and stuff are translucent :)

        Or like x-ray is pretty much a camera flash that can shine through bodies.

        • WHYAREWEALLCAPS
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          31 year ago

          Eh. It’s less radio transmitters are like flashlights more flashlights are transmitters.

        • Buildings and stuff aren’t all that translucent to radio waves. You can’t just point two radios at each other with a building between them and expect them to “see” each other. They can bounce and reflect off them like light would off mirrors and reflective surfaces and even be bent by changes in the atmosphere itself, though.

          A powerful enough radio, though, is kinda like when you can see light shining through your arm if you hold a flashlight to it.

          • fearout
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            111 year ago

            That’s why I didn’t use “transparent”. Translucent is exactly what they are though, with wood being more see-through and concrete less so. But a regular concrete wall still lets enough through not to drop most connections.

    • thingsiplay
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      41 year ago

      @peter Yeah, that’s a bit confusing. Wifi is based on radio spectrum, and Lifi is based partly on infrared. And infrared light has more energy. So I guess that’s one of the downsides probably, that it requires more energy to produce that? I’m not an expert or anything like that.